The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (SDWFND) Learning Path provides foundational concepts, business drivers, and an architectural vision of Cisco Catalyst software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), demonstrating how its core principles enable agile, secure, and cloud-ready WAN solutions to meet modern business demands.
Who should attend
- Enterprise network system installers
- System integrators
- System administrators
- Network administrators
- Solutions designers
What you will learn
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Understand foundational concepts, business drivers, and architectural vision of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to address modern WAN challenges
- Perform secure controller and WAN Edge onboarding using zero-trust principles and implement secure data plane operations with IPsec and segmentation
- Configure and verify Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)-based overlay routing, including route advertisement, redistribution, and network segmentation
- Manage device configurations using Configuration Groups, Feature Profiles, Device Templates, and automation workflows for scalable deployment
- Design and apply centralized and localized policies, including Quality of Service (QoS) and Application Quality of Experience (AppQoE), and implement Direct Internet Access (DIA) and cloud optimization features
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