Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD)

The Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD) training gives you the knowledge and skills you need to design an enterprise network. This training serves as a deep dive into enterprise network design and expands on the topics covered in the Implementing and Operating Cisco® Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR) training.

Course outline

Designing EIGRP routing
Designing OSPF routing
Designing IS-IS routing
Designing BGP routing and redundancy
Exploring BGP Address Families and Attributes
Designing an Enterprise Campus LAN
Designing Layer 2 Campus
Designing a Layer 3 Campus
Discovering the Cisco SD-Access Architecture
Exploring Cisco SD-Access Fabric Design
Exploring Cisco SD-Access Site Design Strategy and Considerations
Discovering Service Provider-Managed VPNs
Designing Enterprise-Managed VPNs
Designing WAN Resiliency
Examining Cisco SD-WAN Architectures
Examining Cisco SD-WAN Deployment Design Considerations
Examining Cisco SD-WAN—NAT and Hybrid Design Considerations
Designing Cisco SD-WAN Routing and High Availability
Exploring QoS
Designing LAN and WAN QoS
Introducing Multicast
Exploring Multicast with PIM-SM
Designing Rendezvous Point Distribution Solutions
Designing an IPv4 Address Plan
Exploring IPv6
Deploying IPv6
Introducing Network APIs and Protocols
Exploring YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and Model-Driven Telemetry

Course objectives

After taking this training, you should be able to:

Design Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) internal routing for the enterprise network
Design Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) internal routing for the enterprise network
Design Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) internal routing for the enterprise network
Design a network based on customer requirements
Design Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing for the enterprise network
Describe the different types and uses of Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) address families
Describe BGP load sharing
Design a BGP network based on customer requirements
Decide where the L2/L3 boundary will be in your Campus network and make design decisions
Describe Layer 2 design considerations for Enterprise Campus networks
Design a LAN network based on customer requirements
Describe Layer 3 design considerations in an Enterprise Campus network
Examine Cisco SD-Access fundamental concepts
Describe Cisco SD-Access Fabric Design
Design a Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) Campus Fabric based on customer requirements
Design service provider-managed VPNs
Design enterprise-managed VPNs
Design a resilient WAN
Design a resilient WAN network based on customer requirements
Examine the Cisco SD-WAN architecture
Describe Cisco SD-WAN deployment options
Design Cisco SD-WAN redundancy
Explain the basic principles of QoS
Design Quality of Service (QoS) for the WAN
Design QoS for enterprise network based on customer requirements
Explain the basic principles of multicast
Designing rendezvous point distribution solutions
Describe high-level considerations when doing IP addressing design
Create an IPv6 addressing plan
Plan an IPv6 deployment in an existing enterprise IPv4 network
Describe the challenges that you might encounter when transitioning to IPv6
Design an IPv6 addressing plan based on customer requirements
Describe Network APIs and protocols
Describe Yet Another Next Generation (YANG), Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), and Representational State Transfer Configuration Protocol (RESTCONF)