New Training: Configure Direct Internet Access Failover

In this 7-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Knox Hutchinson explains how to configure a re-route policy for SD-WAN in the event of an internet outage. Watch this new networking training.
Watch the full course: Cisco CCNP Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions
This training includes:
7 videos
28 minutes of training
You’ll learn these topics in this skill:
When Two Internets are Better Than One
How DIA Failover Really Works
Restricting IPSec Tunnel Creation
Advertise a Service VPN Default Route
Prefer an Outbound TLOC for DIA
Verify the Failover Works
Summarizing DIA Failover
Why Modern Businesses Need Redundant ISP Connections
In the IT world redundancy is common practice. Servers have two power supplies. IT admins have two or more suppliers, and businesses should have more than one ISP connection. Unfortunately, not all organizations have two internet connections to the outside world. That decision could cost them.
There was a time when configuring two internet connections to one business was difficult. That's no longer the case with software-defined networking, though. Today, it's easy to create a re-route policy in an SDN environment to dynamically switch between two different internet connections.
The immediate benefit of this is obvious. If one connection experiences an issue and goes down, a network can 'self-heal' itself and re-route all traffic through the secondary connection. A redundant fail-over connection isn't the only benefit, though. During peak usage times, traffic can be balanced between both connections if need be.
Though having a fail-over ISP connection may incur additional costs for a business, the downtime from a single connection may be much more expensive.
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