Hands-on guide to mastering Cisco’s cloud-delivered WAN for enterprise networks. Deploy, Secure and Scale WANs.
Sub Category
- Network & Security
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Objectives
- Understand the business and technical drivers behind SD-WAN adoption and how it differs from traditional WANs
- Learn the history of Viptela and how it integrates into Cisco’s SD-WAN portfolio
- Gain a solid understanding of Cisco SD-WAN architecture, including controllers, routers, and management components
- Explore the roles of vManage, vSmart, vBond, vEdge, and cEdge in the management, control, and data planes
- Learn how underlay and overlay networks work together, including OMP, TLOCs, and secure tunnels with IPsec and DTLS
- Understand SD-WAN policy architecture, centralized vs localized policies, and how policies control forwarding, routing, and services
- Learn how application-aware routing and segmentation enable performance optimization and multi-tenant designs
- Discover how service chaining integrates firewalls, load balancers, and WAN optimizers into SD-WAN data paths
- Get hands-on knowledge of vManage for device onboarding, certificate-based trust, templates, and lifecycle management
- Explore built-in security features, zero trust principles, segmentation, and integration with cloud security and SASE
- Understand compliance, logging, and telemetry considerations for enterprise deployments
- Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot SD-WAN using assurance dashboards, telemetry, and logical troubleshooting flows
- Interpret common SD-WAN alerts and understand their implications on network health and performance
- Study real-world design patterns for small, medium, and large branches, as well as data center and cloud connectivity
- Learn best practices for high availability, scalability, and phased migration strategies from legacy WAN to SD-WAN
Pre Requisites
- No prior SD-WAN or Viptela experience required — the course starts from foundational concepts
FAQ
- Q. How long do I have access to the course materials?
- A. You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.
- Q. Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?
- A. Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don't have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That's up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!
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