SD-WAN

COURSE

About ECI Training Services Department

The ECI Training Services department (ETS) offer excellent training courses on the complete range

of ECI hardware products and software along with latest technology leading the market.

Since ECI is a vendor company apart from technical knowledge transfer, we discuss current market

trends and different use cases which helps our participants understand how the modern telecom

world is transforming. We also offer tailor-made training courses and workshops, which provide in-

depth learning about the operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of live network systems and

components which goes way beyond theoretical knowledge.

Course Objectives

Assessing, planning and designing: scenarios of size and scale, implementations,

applications, strategy, and business requirements.

Implementation: Standards related to business requirements, application flow, policy,

underlay services, characteristics, and migration strategy.

Lifecycle Service Orchestration: service impacting issues, diagnostics, performance

metrics, and troubleshooting.

Components and Features: fundamentals and characteristics of SD-WAN solutions, service

components, and service attributes.

Course Prerequisites

In order to be able to learn the topics in this course in an effective manner the participants are

expected to have the following knowledge:

Basic Networking Terminologies.

Basic Knowledge of Transport/ IP / MPLS / Ethernet Technologies.

OSI Layer & Network Architecture and Design.

Target Audience

System Engineers (e.g., Application Engineers etc.)

Network Engineer Managers

Network Consulting Engineers

Product Developers

Enterprise Solution Designers

Sales Engineers

Network Architects

Product Support and IT Directors

SD-WAN

Companies to benefit by training and certifying their employees include:

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) of all Tiers

Technology solution providers for network services

Large enterprise consumers of Ethernet Business Services

System Integrators and Consultants supporting CSPs

Review of the course objectives

Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

Select an SDN and NFV ecosystem based on the functional requirements of the services

each will carry

Implement an SD-WAN solution, including controller selection and installation service a

service chain

Integrate a new network element/network function into a SD-WAN domain

Troubleshoot SD-WAN technologies when they break or are misconfigured

Capacity planning/dimensioning/scale in and scale out of network functions and SDN

controllers

Duration

2 Days

Course Location

At any ECI Training Center

On-Site

Online Webinar

SD-WAN

AGENDA

Day-1

Section A: Course Opening

Introduction to the course

Presentation of the course leader and the course participants

Student expectations

Course of the training

Section B: General Concepts

Issues/Pain points in current transport Networks

Why SDN?

Operating System Model vs SDN Model

Open Network Forum(ONF) original Proposal

SDN Network Evolution

Basic Terminologies

Abstraction vs decoupling: complementary developments in networking

Virtualization overview

Programmable networking overview

Network slicing overview

Industry and market drivers

Benefits and limitations

Standardization and guidance bodies

ONF, ONAP, ETSI, OASIS, TOSCA, etc

Discussion: Implications of advances of SDN and NFV to network engineering jobs/roles

SD-WAN

Section C: SDN

Introduction to SDN

SDN elements

o Controllers

o Switches

SDN General Architecture

o Data plane

o Forwarding plane

o Application plane

o APIs

Programmability (Netconf, Yang, REST)

Northbound

Southbound

East/Westbound

OpenVSwitch, FlowVisor

SDN in the industry (ONOS, Juniper Contrail, Nuage, etc.)

SDN Planning and Implementation

SDN Orchestration

SDN Controller scaling and resilience

o controller placement

o hierarchical design

o SDN provider design scenarios

o administrative domains

o HA

o controller federations

o controller clustering

SDN Migration

o migration strategies

o direct vs phased

o greenfield, hybrid and mixed

o planning

o migration case studies

Scaling case studies

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Section C: NFV

NFV Overview

Virtualisation and NFV

What can you virtualize?

ETSI NFV Components

Hardware Resources (Compute, Storage, Network)

Virtualisation software

Virtual Resources

Software Instances & Logical Abstraction (VNF forwarding graph/service chain)

MANO Functional Blocks

NFV Orchestrator

o Resource orchestration

o Service orchestration

VNF Manager

VIM

NFV Management and Orchestration Architecture

NFVI, VNF, EMS, OSS/BSS

NFV reference points (VeEn-Vnfm, VeNf-Vnfm, Nf-Vi, Ve-Vnfmi, etc)

Repositories

o VNF Catalog

o Network Services Catalog

o NFV Instances

o NFVI Resources

Positioning of SDN controller in ETSI NFV architectural framework

SDN controller as a VIM, Virtualized Infrastructure Manager

SDN controller as a VNF

SDN controller in the NFVI

SDN controller in the OSS/BSS

SDN controller as a PNF

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Day-2

Section D: SD-WAN

SD-WAN Demystified

Which are the current WAN Technologies available

Issues with existing WAN Technologies

Current Enterprise Site architecture and challenges

Technical, Economic and Business Drivers for SD-WAN

Building Blocks of SD-WAN

Fundamental capabilities of SD-WAN services

SD-WAN Objectives

Is SD-WAN the major SDN/NFV Application?

What SD-WAN Reference architectures exist?

Investigating the building blocks for SD-WAN

Transport-independence of the Underlay Network

IP-based Virtual Overlay Network

How to ensure service assurance of SD-WAN connections?

What is Application-Driven Packet Forwarding for SD-WAN connections?

Ensuring High Availability of SD-WAN Services

Applying Policy-based Packet Forwarding for SD-WAN

Do we need WAN Optimization, and how to implement this function?

What are the SD-WAN Network and Service Components?

Highlighting the key specifications and standards for SD-WAN

What are the SD-WAN Deployment Scenarios?

Selecting an SD-WAN Solution - vendors' review

Next Steps for SD-WAN

MEF SD-WAN

Introduction to MEF 70 Standard

MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Architecture within the LSO Reference Architecture

Characteristics of an SD-WAN Service

Key Concepts & Definition

Application Flow & Policies

SD-WAN Virtual Connection Service Attributes

SD-WAN UNI Service Attributes

SD-WAN Use Cases

SD-WAN

Section E: SD-WAN Labs & Hands-on

Section F: 5G (OPTIONAL)

How SDN and NFV are paving the way for 5G

Issues/Pain points of current network

SDN and NFV in 5G Architecture

Use cases emerging out of SDN and NFV across Fixed, Mobile, Enterprise, Data Centers and

Traditional Service Provider Networks.

Is SD-WAN the Super-Glue That Will Bring 5G core and all the Edges Together?

How LTE & 5G Fit into your SD-WAN Strategy