Duration: 2 Days
For the past 20 years, networking has not been able to quickly respond to
changing business demands. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to change
this. SDN empowers the business to control network behavior by emphasizing the
application instead of the network infrastructure.
Regardless of your hardware or software environment, this vendor-neutral
course offers a clear picture of how SDN:
- Allows more efficient
provisioning of new services and applications
- Realizes cost savings
- Reduces configuration
time and errors
- Enhances security
- Relates to/enhances
cloud computing
What You Will Learn
- SDN and its myths
- SDN solution providers
- Business and technical challenges that SDN solves
- How SDN enhances cloud computing
- How SDN impacts your organization, your team, and you
Audience
- Those interested in a high-level understanding of SDN
- Management,
technical network administrators, application administrators, security and
compliance managers, virtualization administrators, presales technical
engineers, and system and network architects
Prerequistes
A basic understanding of infrastructure and networking terms is helpful but not required.
Course Outline
1. Identify and dispel the myths surrounding SDN
2. Determine the basic feature sets offered by different
vendors and identify each vendor's style
- Physical
- Virtual
- Firewall
3. Define SDN
4.
Evolution of SDN
5. Compare a traditional network
versus an SDN network
6. SDN terminology
- Controllers
- Devices
- Applications
- APIs
(northbound and southbound)
- Planes (mgmt, ctrl, data)
7. Draw a conceptual
diagram of SDN
8. SDN enabling tools and technologies
9. Apply SDN to your organizational challenges
10.
Business and technical challenges solved by SDN
11. Relationship
between SDN and cloud computing
12. Roles and responsibilities in SDN
- IT Management
- Security and compliance
- Network administration
- Server and virtualization administration
13. How do roles in an SDN
network differ from a traditional network
14. How do roles change,
merge, and re-task for SDN
15. The need for collaboration between roles
Course Labs
