INTERNAL
Meraki SD-WAN Lab
Policy A/B with synthetic traffic and safe failover drills. Observe latency, jitter and loss, compare path selections, and review change effects without touching production. Sandboxes reset regularly; never paste secrets.
What you can do:
path policy A/B, simulate ISP brownouts, failover timing, WAN health snapshots.
Safeguards: read-only tenants; rate-limited tests; no customer data.
Metrics to watch: latency (ms), jitter (ms), packet loss (%), path decisions.
Known risks & controls
Risks
- Policy changes affecting live paths
- Over-aggressive failover tests
- Config drift between runs
Controls
- Isolated VLANs / test orgs
- Dry-run & rollback snapshots
- Nightly reset + change log
Evidence & notes — see R&D entries tagged for this lab.
Open R&D Notes