Essential SD-WAN

Description

SD-WAN is rapidly growing in use. This vendor neutral
course starts with an introduction to what SD-WAN is
and when it is useful. Each main area of SD-WAN is
then studied in more detail to enable delegates to
recognise the technologies used in SD-WAN and then
use this information to evaluate SD-WAN products.

What will you learn

Essential SD-WAN training course details

Anyone wishing to learn about SD-WAN.

Network fundamentals.

1 day

What is SD and SDN? What is WAN? Branch/
Office. MPLS, MPLS vs Internet, Ethernet,
Broadband, LTE/4G, Cable, Satellite. The impact
of the cloud. Single console, Dynamic path selection, automation. Why SD-WAN?

Network management, orchestration,
administration. Example GUI interfaces.
Northbound and southbound APIs.

SD-WAN transports, Overlay networks, security.
VPNs, IPsec. QoS and prioritization. Policies,
traffic path rules. Application specific routing,
bonding, optimisation.

Time saving, removing errors. Zero touch, ZOOM,
ZTP. The role of the orchestrator. Real time
monitoring of the network. APIs.

Hardware solutions, software solutions, virtual
appliances. Clouds. SD-WAN edge devices, SDWAN controllers, Orchestrators. HA and SD-WAN.
Riverbed, Cisco, Juniper, others.

SD-WAN doesn't replace MPLS, virtualisation and SD-WAN. Relationship with SDN and NFV. SDWAN versus WAN optimisation.