I’ve been studying a lot of cloud-based architecture lately, focused on the best ways to blend it with SD-WAN infrastructure. One of the most overlooked options involves how to receive up-to-date alerts from the vManage without having to sit and watch a dedicated dashboard. Thankfully, vManage supports webhooks. Webhooks are Read more…
I had a great conversation with someone recently about how to understand what TLOCs are in Viptela/Cisco SD-WAN, and a lot of it revolved around terminology. A lot of current routing terminology starts to break down or confuse the discussion about SD-WAN, and TLOCs are no exception as they have Read more…
Credit for the slide below goes to Brad Edgeworth and Dustin Schuemann. All screenshots are my own. Now that we’ve covered the infrastructure of the Cisco SD-WAN solution, it’s time we start talking about how we plan our network deployments. For that, we need to leverage a newer, better version Read more…
Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…
Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…
Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…
Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…
Disclaimer: I work at Cisco for the Customer Engagements Center of Excellence, which includes dCloud. Among other things, I am also a dCloud developer. dCloud is a sales and training enablement platform that allows Cisco, Partners, and Customers to demonstrate Cisco’s solutions. Demo Solutions, Get Hands On I’m continually surprised Read more…
What is Cisco SD-WAN? At its heart, Cisco SD-WAN is about ensuring that business applications leverage the optimal transport, aka ‘intent-based SD-WAN’. Intent-Based SD-WAN is about leveraging business use cases and business outcomes as the basis for WAN design, rather than building a WAN based on transports and then deciding Read more…