Cisco SD-WAN Service Side NAT

Among Cisco SD-WAN’s tools to steer or influence traffic across the overlay, the data policies are the ones providing the highest flexibility. For a primer about SD-WAN Data Policies, please refer to this article: Cisco SD-WAN Data Policies. One of the SD-WAN Data Policy applications is the Service Side NAT. Compared to traditional networking where NAT

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Cisco SD-WAN Data Policies

Data policies are one powerful tool for Cisco SD-WAN to deliver its promises. They allow specific traffic flows to be redirected or steered in a particular way within or throughout the SD-WAN overlay network. More specifically, Data Policies allow the solution to do: Any modification affecting data plane forwarding E.g. Packet marking, specific transport forwarding,

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IoT calls for security!

Many of us have heard the term “Internet of Things (IoT)” in this or another way, perhaps an advertisement, overhearing a conversation between geeks from the IT department (if you are not into IT), a discussion with colleagues (if you are a geek yourself), or in the news. What exactly do we mean with IoT?

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Resources for the Cisco SD-WAN exam

Hello all, Recently, I have attempted and passed the Cisco CCNP Enterprise Infrastructure SD-WAN concentration exam (300-415 ENSDWI). Given the popularity of the post, I have decided to put together a list of recommended resources. Please note that what worked for me, might or might not work for you, its only my personal journey. Therefore,

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CLEUR and other updates!

Hello everybody! 😀 Continuing with the intent to write more often as promised earlier, I will list some things that occurred recently: Cisco Learning Network announced their roster for Cisco Designated VIPs for 2020! I had the honor to be selected for another year, along with outstanding individuals like Daniel Dib, Elvin Arias, Sergey Lisitsin,

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New year resolution!

Hello everybody! Its been a while since I wrote something in my own blog. Before anything else, I would like to apologize 😦 There is no plausible gain on blaming work and time constraints, I simply, didn’t write here (mea culpa). That being said, this is about to change: One of my goals for this

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A lot happened – Updates are in order!

Hello everyone I have been away for some time (sorry about it) and i’m trying to get back on track to blog more. Gotta say I had my plate full with couple of exams in my queue and a huge workload. Things are moving forward and I promised myself i would do my best to

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Returning to the world of the living, aaaand… CCDP achieved! :D

Hello everyone! 😀 I know i know… I have been quite away from the blog (sorry about that). I have been veeery busy with work and studies. Actually, now I am a little bit more “free” than before, because I took the ARCH exam. So, no deadline now! 😀 I will be writing the pending

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