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 about SD-WAN, and TLOCs are no exception as they have Read more…

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. For that, we need to leverage a newer, better version 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 use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those 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 use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those 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 use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…

SD-WAN Deep Dive: Cisco vManage

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…

Getting Started with dCloud – Prelude to SD-WAN Deep Dive

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…

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) – A Guide to Getting Started

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…