Overview
The Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) is a powerful, flexible, software-defined networking (SDN) platform. It abstracts and simplifies your WAN environment while making it fully open and programmable. WAE network-modeling technology enables real-time analysis of traffic needs and traffic placement in complex WAN topologies.
This is a sandbox intended for self-study, and it provides a variety of scenarios that interact with numerous components of WAE. You will interact with the WAE platform across a set of APIs and technologies, including Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Segment Routing, MPLS, PCEP, and BGP-LS.
This environment uses Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL). VIRL is a multi-purpose network virtualization platform that provides an easy way to build, configure, and test new or existing network topologies with an intuitive user interface (UI).
Scenarios
- Scenario 1: Access WAE Lab
Requirements
| Required | Optional |
| ● Laptop | ● Cisco AnyConnect® |
Components
- Cisco WAE 7.1.1
- NSO 4.5.0.1
- IOS XRv 6.4.1
- Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL)
Features
| WAE | - Model-driven path visibility and computation engine
- Simulates and optimizes paths in a network
- Bandwidth related use cases with WAE as an application integrated with XTC – Bandwidth Optimization and Bandwidth on Demand
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| XTC | - A stateful, distributed path computation engine running in IOS XR
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| NSO | - Service Orchestrator for provisioning/deploying service and configurations to devices
- Using NSO to deploy an local explicit SR policy and query WAE for an optimal path before deployment
- Using NSO to deploy a local SR policy with Bandwidth constraint
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| VIRL | - Multi-purpose network virtualization platform.
- Provides an easy way to build, configure, and test new or existing network topologies
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