New Cisco SD-WAN Training in Grandmetric Bootcamps portfolio

We are glad to announce that our new bootcamp: Cisco SD-WAN Training is fully prepared, available and ready to deliver. This 2-Day, instructor led training covers the most important topics of Cisco SD-WAN technology (former Viptela), from Software-Defined WAN theory fundamentals to hands-on excercises for the most common real world example

Grandmetric to deliver first SD-WAN implementation in Poland

We are very proud to announce that Grandmetric successfuly delivered the first Software-Defined production network in quarter 1 2019 for Pfeifer & Langen Polska S.A. The implementation was part of network and IT operations optimization project for one of the largest sugar manufacturer in this part of Europe.

What is SD-WAN (SDWAN)

Specifically, the paradigm called data, control and management plane dissagregation and network automation. Here, you can read about paradigms and characteristics that the SDN idea brings. Dissagregation approach simplifies the process of building & maintaining something called network overlay. Overlay is an abstraction that SDWAN idea relies on (you will read more on dissagregation and overlay concepts below).

Cisco Viptela SD-WAN components and connectivity (Part-2)

This post is dedicated to provide an overview of the Viptela policies. We go into the the details of the various kinds of policies and the overall policy architecture. In our earlier post we had focused on Viptela concept, Viptela SD-WAN components and how to authenticate the vEdges to Viptela cloud and setup basic connectivity between sites.

Cisco Viptela SD-WAN components and connectivity (Part-1)

This article is the first part in the series about SD-WAN technology where we learn step by step what exactly Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is, how to build and use it, how and why using this concept could be beneficial for enterprises or even service providers and how to transform the current enterprise WAN to a SD-WAN solution. We are going to start with looking closely at Cisco Viptela product, however later on, we will describe other SD-WAN platforms in a similar manner.