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Cisco Enterprise Networks: Overlay Routing Concepts

by Greg Dickinson

Connecting new networks in diverse locations can present interesting challenges. This course will teach you how to use overlay networking with CIsco technologies to allow for flexible network configuration.

What you'll learn

Maintaining wide-area networks in diverse locations can present unique challenges. In this course, Cisco Enterprise Networks: Overlay Routing Concepts, you’ll learn to manage virtualized networks on top of a carrier network, or the Internet. First, you’ll explore tunneling and securing network traffic between locations. Next, you’ll discover virtual routing with LISP. Finally, you’ll learn how to extend layer 2 networks using VXLAN. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of overlay networks needed to manage Cisco virtualized networks.

About the author

Greg has been a longtime "technology enthusiast" (aka "computer nerd") that managed to take his hobby and make a very good living out of it. He's dealt with networking software as far back as NetWare 3.11 and GroupWise and carried that curiosity forward to become skilled in Windows, Exchange, Cisco, and VMware technologies.

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