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Freestyle 104 - Cisco SD-WAN (aka Viptela) Design

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Title: Freestyle 104 - Cisco SD-WAN (aka Viptela) Design



Episode video: https://youtu.be/qL4rwAmG-dI

Published: 24th January 2019

Hosts: Malcolm Booden, Daren Fulwell

Guests: None

In this episode Malcolm and Daren discuss the design principles, building blocks and behaviour of Cisco's SD-WAN product.  Formerly Viptela, Cisco acquired the product in mid 2017 in order to develop their software-defined networking capabilities.

Cisco SD-WAN is a fully-featured integrated software-defined networking product, which uses many concepts which will be familiar to the viewer, and others that are less so.  We bring the practical experience of designing such networks to the video and discuss some of the pitfalls and gotchas experienced along the way.

Comments, corrections or criticisms always welcome.  You can contact us at @netfreestyle on Twitter or email us at networkfreestylers@gmail.com.  You can also leave comments on the blog or on the Youtube channel - we look forward to hearing what you have…
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Freestyle 102 - Introduction to SD-WAN

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Title: Freestyle 102 - An Intro to SD-WAN
Episode video: https://youtu.be/C4GBFZ8Xu_I

Published: 19th December 2018

Hosts: Malcolm Booden, Daren Fulwell

Guests: None

In this episode Malcolm and Daren discuss SD-WAN, by introducing the technology and working through the key components, high level design strategies and some things to watch out for during deployment!

Any comments, corrections or criticisms always welcome.  You can contact us at @netfreestyle on Twitter or email us at networkfreestylers@gmail.com.  You can also leave comments on the blog or on the Youtube channel - we look forward to hearing what you have to say!

During the making of this video, we researched the topic online and felt the following links might be useful to anyone doing the same:
Open Networking User Group SD-WAN Use Cases White PaperSDX Central - What is SD-WAN?
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Freestyle 107 - Let's Build a DC!!

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Episode video: https://youtu.be/892hTpA8vbM

Published: 27th March 2019

Hosts: Malcolm Booden, Daren Fulwell

Guests: None

In this episode Malcolm and Daren discuss data centre design, covering the key building blocks required to deliver a modular and scalable solution.

The design topics covered throughout the discussion include the trusted, semi-trusted and untrusted zones of the data centre, design drivers and some scenarios relating to traffic flows to / from applications and services from the WAN and internet.  

Consequences of stateful devices in the failover path are also covered with some suggestions on how issues can be alleviated to avoid application outages.

Comments, corrections or criticisms always welcome.  You can contact us at @netfreestyle on Twitter or email us at networkfreestylers@gmail.com.  You can also leave comments on the blog or on the Youtube channel - we look forward to hearing what you have to say - thanks for watching!

Episode links:

Cisco DC Design Zone

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