Course Detail

Course Audience

- Network and Security Manager
- Network and Security Engineer
- Senior Network Engineer
- Network and Security Automation Engineer
- Network Administrator

Course Outline

Introduction to FortiGate SD-WAN
• Overview of SD-WAN capabilities in FortiOS 7.4
• Benefits of SD-WAN in large-scale deployments

Planning and Design
• Assessing network requirements
• Designing the SD-WAN architecture

Configuration Basics
• Initial setup of FortiGate devices
• Configuring interfaces and zones for SD-WAN

SD-WAN Rules and Policies
• Setting up performance SLAs
• Creating and managing SD-WAN rules
• Monitoring and optimizing SD-WAN performance

Advanced Routing and VPN Overlay
• Implementing Advanced Routing (OSPF/BGP) Strategies
• Implementing SD-WAN and Integrating Network to your Active/Active Data Centers
• Configuring VPN overlay for SD-WAN
• Testing and Monitoring

SD-WAN Cloud On-Ramp
• Overview cloud services with SD-WAN
• Best practices for cloud on-ramp solutions

Operational Best Practices
• Monitoring and reporting
• Troubleshooting SD-WAN, Underlay and Overlay common issues.

Security Considerations
• Ensuring secure SD-WAN deployment
• Aligning with Zero Trust Network Access principles

Performance Optimization
• Traffic shaping and QoS
• Optimizing application steering

Bonus Session SD-WAN and VXLAN
• Emerging trends in SD-WAN and VXLAN technologies
• Key design considerations for implementing Active-Active Data Centers
• Best practices for SD-WAN and VXLAN network design and deployment
• Case studies of successful SD-WAN and VXLAN deployments

Course Completion

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Course Prerequisites

- Intermediate Networking and Security Skills (Required)

- Completed or Certified: Cisco Certified Network Associate (Recommended)
- Completed or Certified: Fortinet Certified Associate Cybersecurity (Recommended)
- Completed or Certified: FortiGate Security and FortiGate Infrastructure (NSE4) (Recommended)
- Completed: Fortinet Security Fabric Management Center (Recommended)