Cisco DNA SD-Access "Software Defined-Access" is the future of Cisco enterprise networks. This is the second part in a two part series, to provide you insight in to how you can quickly get your Cisco SD-Access Lab up and running.

Cisco DNA SD-Access "Software Defined-Access" is the future of Cisco enterprise networks, and whether you're ready or not, it's here. In this blog series, we're going to take a look at the base setup of your SD-Access Lab environment and provide some useful links along the way to content to help you understand the topic more fully.

In our series of blogs exploring Cisco SD Access, we took a look at What is SDA Fabric as an overview. In this blog we'll dig deeper and take a look at the concept of Micro Segmentation. Micro Segmentation is all about providing a level of granular network control never seen before. Let's take a look.

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On the back of our blog regarding Perpetual PoE on the Catalyst 9000 access layer switching platforms, there is yet another very valuable feature you may not be aware of that drastically reduces the disruption to service as a result of a planned outage when performing full image upgrade - xFSU.

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Cisco are massively moving the needle on how future networks will be designed and deployed. Cisco SDA Fabric is a term we're going to be hearing a whole lot more about. Why change something that works? In this blog, we’ll take a look at that exact question.

There’s multiple challenges in designing, deploying and maintaining a network environment. We can’t go through all these in one blog - there’s just too many, but in this blog, we’re going to have a quick run though on those that SDN (Software Defined Networking) can help solve.

Cloud networking is a term used to describe how network equipment is configured, controlled and monitored. Cloud networking disconnects the network engineers from needing a console cable to get network equipment up and running and allows for remote configuration, ahead of the deployment to take place and the config be deployed to the equipment when it[…]

At IPTel we've been working on the deployed of Cisco SD Access. This is pretty new technology for most people and so has a bit of mystery to how this is deployed. In this blog, we'll take a look at how a real world deployment of Cisco SD Access looks.