What You'll Learn
- 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
Requirements
- No prior SD-WAN or Viptela experience required — the course starts from foundational concepts
Who This Course is For
- Network engineers and administrators who want to learn Cisco SD-WAN concepts and architecture
- IT professionals preparing for Cisco certifications or roles involving WAN technologies
- Solution architects and consultants working on WAN modernization and cloud integration projects
- System engineers and operations teams responsible for managing enterprise WAN environments
- Students or entry-level engineers looking to build a strong foundation in SD-WAN and networking trends
- Anyone interested in understanding how Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) simplifies, secures, and scales enterprise networks
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