This Learning Path is designed to guide users through the many possible Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) integrations with other vendors and technologies. After these videos, you will understand how to integrate Cisco SD-WAN with carrier-neutral facility providers, public cloud platforms, and some of the most popular security service edge (SSE) vendors.

AI systems are rapidly transforming how organizations operate, but they also introduce new and evolving security risks. This learning path focuses on how Cisco AI Defense enables organizations to secure AI systems across their entire lifecycle. You will develop an understanding of common AI vulnerabilities and how they impact modern environments, while exploring how Cisco AI Defense provides visibility into AI assets, validates models against adversarial risks, and enforces real-time protections through runtime guardrails. By the end, you will have a clear understanding of how Cisco AI Defense delivers visibility, validation, and runtime protection to help secure AI at scale.

This learning path on foundational Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) provides a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into the core aspects of OSPF. It starts by explaining the basics of OSPF, including its purpose, operation, and fundamental concepts such as OSPF Neighbors, advertising routes, authentication, OSPF network types, and many others. This learning path aims to equip network professionals with the knowledge needed to manage and optimize OSPF in real-world environments, emphasizing best practices and common pitfalls.

This Learning Path is designed to Discover and Experience Cisco (Viptela) SD-WAN. The lab environment that supports this Learning Path is virtual and dedicated to each individual consumer.

This learning path is a comprehensive, progression-driven curriculum designed to take network engineers from core Layer 2/3 fundamentals all the way to architect-level mastery of VXLAN EVPN — one of the most critical technologies underpinning modern data center and cloud networking. Spanning multiple structured modules, the path is carefully sequenced to build knowledge layer by layer, ensuring that each concept is grounded in what came before and every advanced topic is supported by a solid technical foundation. The journey begins with a deliberate refresher of networking fundamentals — Ethernet, VLANs, IP routing, and ARP — not as a review for its own sake, but to reframe those concepts through the lens of scalability challenges that VXLAN EVPN was built to solve. From there, learners explore the evolution of data center design, the mechanics of overlay networking, and the inner workings of VXLAN itself, before advancing into the EVPN control plane, distributed routing models, multi-tenancy, and high-availability designs. Throughout the path, the curriculum maintains a strong emphasis on real-world applicability and multi-vendor relevance, with content aligned to production deployments on Cisco NX-OS, Arista EOS, and Juniper Junos platforms. Learners will not only understand how VXLAN EVPN works in theory, but will develop the design intuition to architect, validate, and defend fabric deployments in complex, large-scale environments. Advanced modules extend the curriculum into automation and programmability, multi-site and inter-DC architectures, hybrid cloud integration, and emerging trends such as SRv6 and AI-driven network operations. This learning path is built for engineers at the CCNA level and above who are ready to move beyond traditional campus and enterprise networking into modern data center and cloud infrastructure. It is equally valuable for seasoned professionals seeking to formalize and deepen their VXLAN EVPN knowledge, close vendor-specific gaps, or transition into architecture and design roles. Whether you are preparing for a professional certification, building a lab curriculum, or enabling a team of engineers, this path provides the structure, depth, and practical grounding to make that outcome a reality. Look for part 2 of this series, where we dive into advanced VXLAN techniques such as flood and learn, MP-BGP EVPN, multi-tenancy, and troubleshooting.

In this learning path, we explore the software based orechestration and management of the Cisco Secure AI Factory data center. We explore Cisco Intersight, a SaaS-baased management platform, which allows a data center engineer to orchestrate and automate physical and virtual infrastructure. We also have a lab around the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller.

The user of this learning path will learn the components of RoCE and why it is essential for clean, fast, and reliable AI/ML compute communication.

This Learning Path shows you how to build a source-of-truth-driven automation solution with Cisco Catalyst Center, NetBox, and Ansible. You'll sync live inventory into NetBox using Orb Agent and Diode, drive Ansible playbooks off a NetBox dynamic inventory, and close the loop by writing live device health scores back into NetBox.

This Learning Path delivers tangible business value by empowering enterprises to proactively defend against security threats through the intelligent capabilities of Cisco SD-WAN. Designed for network engineers interested in learning about securing the SD-WAN, this Learning Path leverages integrated security features such as threat intelligence, secure segmentation, and advanced traffic inspection, organizations can reduce risk, minimize downtime, and ensure business continuity. Ultimately, this learning path supports enterprises in strengthening their security posture while optimizing network performance and operational efficiency.

The Cisco ACI: Tenant & Fabric Connectivity learning path is the second part of our ACI fundamentals training, following the "Cisco ACI Fabric Initialization and Hypervisor Connectivity" path. This path covers two key areas: 1) Fabric Infrastructure configurations, which involve physical fabric setup, including vPCs, VLANs, loop prevention, underlay BGP protocol, etc. 2) Tenant Configurations, defining logical constructs like application profiles, bridge domains, and EPGs. In this Learning Path, students will learn to create Tenants, Application Profiles, Bridge domains, and EPGs, by using objects for connectivity within a physical ACI fabric. They will also discover how to connect Layers 2 and 3 to external networks and explore methods for segmentation using contracts and filters to support both Inter-EPG and Intra-EPG segmentation.

This learning path delivers a structured exploration of network observability principles and monitoring architecture across enterprise environments. Through guided articles, videos, and hands-on labs, participants will develop meaningful insight around telemetry strategy, observability tool placement, and data pipeline design for the data center, cloud edge, campus, and distributed application layer.

Embark on a comprehensive exploration of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Multi-Region Fabric architecture with this all-encompassing learning path that includes articles, videos, and hands-on lab experiences, offering a deep dive into the essential features of the latest Cisco SD-WAN architecture.