Business Critical Applications and Intelligent Decision Making at the WAN Edge….. these are the things I’ve been focusing on in the past few blogs. To me, PfRv3 and DMVPN are the dynamic duo of Cisco’s IWAN that help you learn… Read More ›
Routing
Business Critical Apps & the DMVPN Underlay of IWAN’s Intelligent Path Control
Let’s assume we have a Branch with 1 Router and 2 WAN connections. We decide to use Intelligent Path Control with PfRv3 and design our policy such that the business critical traffic goes over one of the WAN clouds (MPLS,… Read More ›
Which Path in the WAN are those Business Critical Applications Taking?
“Learning about and avoiding impairments (delay, loss, jitter) along the path that business critical traffic takes.” That is what I wrote in my previous blog “IWAN’s Intelligent Path Control & Using Your Backup Link.” But how is that possible to… Read More ›
YouTube: A Little IWAN Fun in the Lab
In this YouTube “playing in the lab” IWAN fun we are going to have 2 phones (one in Branch 1 and one in Branch 3) doing a voice/video call. We will use LiveAction to see that the video call between… Read More ›
IPv6: Yet Another Post Trying to Urge You to Start TODAY
“Okay, who wants to learn IPv6 and be the IPv6 person for CPOC?” This was the question asked by our manager to our team back in 2002 when we heard “IPv6 is COMING – GET READY NOW!” My hand went… Read More ›
Intelligent WAN (“IWAN”) Here I Come!
As many of you know I work in Cisco’s Customer Proof of Concept (CPOC) lab and have for many years (since February of 2001). What this has meant is that for the past 14 years I’m never in one specific… Read More ›
Advanced DMVPN & Routing: Part 2 – The Forwarding Plane
In Part 1 of this 2 part blog series, we went into details about the environment, setup, and control plane. In this blog we are going to continue our advanced routing and DMVPN fun but will be focusing on… Read More ›