The Course Name : SDNPW – SDN Planning Workshop: Demystifying Vendor Solutions
The Duration: 3 Days
The Overview:
The purpose of this course is to teach participants deep dive knowledge of Software Defined Networks
What You Will Learn:
- SDN Architecture
- Vendor Discovery
- How to perform a GAP Analysis
- How to create a Conceptual Design
- How to propose the plan
The Course Index:
- SDN Overview
- SDN Architecture
- Communication Flows
- Network Functions Virtualization and Overlays
- Activity: SDN Review
- Developing Your Plan
- Initial Planning and Discovery
- Design Sessions
- Design Development
- Activity: Current State Analysis
- Vendor Discovery
- Defining the Scope of Your Research
- Identifying Trustworthy Sources of Information
- Locating the Sources
- Starting Your Vendor Research
- Activity: Vendor Research
- Vendor Interactions
- Distilling the Content
- Considering the Message
- Dissecting the Message
- Exercise: Testing your Defenses
- Interviewing Vendors
- Exercise: Preparing Your Questions
- Fact Checking
- Exercise: Fact Checking
- Performing a Gap Analysis
- Pulling It All Together
- Validating Assumptions
- Picking a Solution
- Exercise: Creating a Gap Analysis
- Creating a Conceptual Design
- Conceptual Design Overview
- Conceptual Design Components,
- Exercise: Creating a Conceptual Design
- Proposing Your Plan
- Preparing Your Presentation
- Presenting Your Proposal
- Defending Your Design
- Action Plan