Cisco WAN to SD-WAN Migration POC

Explore Cisco's software-defined WAN, including architecture, fabric, and centralized or localized policies. Understand how a central controller and cloud integration enable security, telemetry, and automation across edge devices.

Explore end-to-end sd-wan features, policy tagging and analytics with DNA Center to securely connect branches across on-prem and cloud environments with traffic engineering and unified visibility.

Explore sdwan controller deployment options from cloud and on-prem to service provider and private cloud, along with plug-and-play setup, device registration, and controller profiling for scalable networks.

Establishes a secure SD-WAN control plane by detailing mutual certificate authentication among controllers, devices, and management systems, with certificate types, OTPs, and TPM-based security.

Operate the fabric by establishing control and data planes, managing edge devices with overlay management protocol, exchanging policies and keys via reichsmark and omb, and monitoring liveliness with bfd.

Explore how OMP overlay routing learns, advertises, and selects routes across the fabric by distributing internal and service-side routes via BGP-like attributes, applying policy-driven preferences to determine the best path.

Explore centralized and localized sd-wan policies, distinguish control and data policies, and learn how they are pushed from we manage to edge devices.

Demonstrates policy-based service insertion to redirect traffic through a firewall in a hub-and-spoke and data center VPN setup, including creating, modifying, and activating policies across branches.

Master how to configure an extranet policy to share routes among vpn 20, 40, and 100, using loopback interfaces, prefix lists, and export rules, with verification and troubleshooting.

Explore how data policies govern application traffic and how they differ from control policies, and how destination and source matching enables ambulance traffic prioritization with internet fallback.

Configure a data policy with app-aware routing for audio/video and web apps, create app groups, set primary and backup actions, apply to all branches, and verify on edge device.

Verify the data policy for app-aware routing is declared, applied across all data and branches, and monitor tunnel traffic to validate latency, jitter, and policy effectiveness.

Plan a data center–first sd-wan migration in the lab, deploying controllers with feature templates for scalable configuration, migrating data centers before branches, and implementing omb and vpns.

Book and access Cisco cloud lab for the poc, import or create topology, and deploy the lab to provision the control plane across devices in about one hour.

Bring up additional data center devices by provisioning bootstrap config, installing certificates, updating platform software, applying a site template, and validating control connections in the we manage dashboard.

Demonstrates advertising BGP routes from devices to the SD-WAN, creating separate templates for data center and branches, and configuring redistribution of OMB into BGP with route filters to prevent duplicates.

Learn how internal BGP routes are redistributed into BGP across data centers, configure local policies and tagging, and validate route propagation in a Cisco WAN to SD-WAN migration context.

Migrate branch hardware and software after data center migration, verify and upgrade the router image, then push the Estevan bootstrap configuration template via we manage to complete the branch migration.

Execute the branch bootstrap and authentication steps, install and attach the deployment template, upload variables, and monitor the fabric join as the device comes online.

Plan and execute branch five migration with a cutover to a new internet link, using Estevan traffic routing as a rescue path and bootstrap configuration, root certificate, and BGP verification.

Perform post migration checks by validating BGP configurations between sites and examining learned prefixes. Redistribute routes via a BGP template and verify path reachability.

Analyze pre-migration configuration and hardware options, compare features between solutions, assess deployment models (cloud, on-premises, or hosted), evaluate control plane, licensing, throughput, and visibility for Cisco SD-WAN migration.

Configure a data center migration by provisioning minimum device configurations and attaching templates. Establish a BGP ring between DC devices to join the fabric.

Attach the vSmart template, activate the central policy, and run an automation script to perform verification tasks and validate policy behavior in a Cisco WAN to SD-WAN migration.

Migrate branch five from iwan to sd-wan by applying certificate and bootstrap configuration, converting the device to sd-wan, and enabling controller mode. Apply the branch five template via automation.

Continue onboarding branch five by applying the internet type 2 template, configuring BGP and tunnels, and validating control plane connectivity for the SD-WAN migration from iwan.

Explore per-tunnel QoS verification in a Cisco WAN to SD-WAN migration context, using local policies, policy maps, and interface-level settings to validate bandwidth and tunnel behavior across branches.