Understanding TLOCs With Cisco SD-WAN

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 Read more…

YouTube Channel

Just wanted to cross-link to my YouTube channel. I plan to post my videos concerning SD-WAN and anything else that tickles my fancy. Expect tips and tricks around demonstration materials. I’ll still post to my blog when it makes sense Read more…

Cisco Live US 2019 Report

Cisco Live 2019: Now Cisco Livelier! I spent a week at Cisco Live US recently, or, as Denise Fishburne calls it, the “Summer Camp for Geeks”. It’s amazing to see how much can change in one year. One year ago, Read more…

Spoke: IGMP (Multicast)

Spoke: IGMP (Multicast) In the last post, we talked about some of the fundamental details of multicast, the challenges it solves, and the basics of how it works. This time, let’s focus on the method by which receivers signal their Read more…

Hub: Basic Multicast

Basic Multicast Topology Since I’m knee-deep in preparing for my CLUS 2019 breakout, I figured I’d pull some double duty and post an update to my blog. Currently, I’m working on labbing some multicast scenarios and building a topology that Read more…

Shortcut: DMVPN Demystified

Shortcut: DMVPN Demystified I don’t have a huge amount of time to blog these next few weeks, but I wanted to put something up that might interest people. Since leaving Advanced Services, I’ve been heavily focused on Cisco SD-WAN. I Read more…

Taken from Cisco's DMVPN CVD.

SD-WAN Deep Dive: Templates

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. Read more…

SD-WAN Deep Dive: WAN Edge Routers

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 Read more…

SD-WAN Deep Dive: vSmart Controller

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 Read more…

SD-WAN Deep Dive: vBond Orchestrator

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 Read more…