What you’ll learn
Who should enroll
- Network architects
- Network engineers
- Network consulting engineers
- Customer support engineers
Technology areas
- Software-defined networking
Training overview
Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Introduce and examine the evolution of service provider design principles
- Introduce and review the basic building blocks of segment routing and its place within the service provider infrastructure
- Implement various technologies within segment routing to provide additional availability or to meet the Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Identify and deploy an SDN controller to support a multidomain segment routing for traffic engineering
(SR-TE) network - Describe different VPNs and services
- Explain how to configure and verify Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Native and EVPN Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS)
- Describe how to configure and verify the Layer 3 VPN
- Explain network operation simplification and automation foundation
- Describe how to automate service provider network configurations with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO)
- Describe how to automate the service provider WAN with Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE)
- Explore different converged SDN transport use cases
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, you should have:
- Knowledge of general networking concepts
- Experience working with CLI-based network devices
Outline
- Converged SDN Transport Fundamentals
- Introducing Segment Routing
- Segment Routing Topology-Independent Loop-Free Alternative (TI-LFA) and Traffic Engineering (TE)
- Multidomain SR-TE
- VPN and Services Overview
- EVPN Layer 2 Basics
- Layer 3 VPNs
- Operation Simplification and Automation Foundation
- Network Orchestration Using NSO
- Network Automation Using Cisco WAE
Lab outline
- Configure and Verify Segment Routing
- Configure and Verify SR TI-LFA
- Configure and Verify SR-TE
- Configure and Verify Multidomain SR-TE
- Configure and Verify Basic EVPN
- Configure and Verify Layer 3 VPN
- Cisco NSO Overview
- Cisco WAE Overview