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SD-WAN

Terms

DIA — Direct Internet Access

  • Commodity Internet

MPLS — Multi-protocol Label Switching

  • A private network provided by an ISP.
  • Expensive and fast.

BFD — Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

SD-WAN policy

Policies are further classified as

  • Local Policy: Programed on the edges. ACLs, QoS, routing, and AAA.
  • Centralized Policy: Route policy, before being sent to the edges, (Topology, VPN Membership, Application Aware Routing)

Application aware routing

AAR — Application Aware Routing

FEC — Forward Error Correction

  • Every four packets, send a parity packet

Packet Duplication

  • Send twice as much data via two tunnels
  • The receiving vEdge router can reconstruct it

TCP Optimization and Session Persistence

  • High-latency links: satellite
  • Open one TCP session
    • Proxy
    • Reuse
    • Never drop

DRE — Data Redundancy Elimination

  • Modern compression
  • WAN links

vQoE — Viptela Quality of Experience

  • AAR, or CoR
  • Edge sends HTTP probes to measure jitter and/or loss
  • 0 to 10, 10 being best

VPNs

VPNs go from 0 to 65530.

Some VPNS are already used.

VPN 0

The Underlay, transport VPN. All the dTLS connections live here.

VPN 512

OOB Management. This VPN isn’t carried across the dTLS connections.

SDWAN analytics

  • Application Experience

    • Application Use
  • Site Health

    • Tunnel Health
  • Bandwidth Forecasting

    • Capacity Planning
  • Talos Integration

    • Threat Mitigation

Default permissions groups

Basic

Can view the system.

Operator

Can view the system.

Netadmin

Can perform all operations

Commands

!
! Control Setup
!
show sdwan control local-properties
show sdwan control connections
show sdwan control connection-history
!
! OMP
!
show sdwan omp peers
show sdwan omp routes
show sdwan omp tlocs
show sdwan omp services
show sdwan omp summary
show sdwan omp multicast-routes
!
! Validator
!
show orchestrator connections

References

Cisco Live - Empowering your Network with SDWAN OMP - Waqas Daar - BKRENT-3115

Cisco Live - SD-WAN Start Here - Lars Granberg - BRKENT-2108

Network Academy - SDWAN Deep-Dive

Cisco Community - Cisco SDWAN Webinar

Cisco - Design Zone for Branch/WAN - SDWAN Design Guide

Cisco - SDWAN User Documentation

Cisco - SDWAN High Availability Configuration Guide, IOS-XE 17

Cisco - Youtube - SD-WAN: Multicloud Overview and Demonstration

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