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Switches and Routers: A Comprehensive Introduction
Course: 364
Type: Hands-On Training
Duration: 4 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Build and design a scalable internetwork
- Distinguish between various LAN technologies
- Deploy switches using advanced resiliency techniques
- Interconnect networks using appropriate WAN services
- Determine the optimum routing protocol for various internetworking environments
- Integrate management and security into your internetwork
Course Benefits Switches and routers are the critical building blocks of a successful internetwork infrastructure. In this course, you gain the essential knowledge required to deploy and use switches and routers in TCP/IP networks. Through extensive hands-on exercises, you acquire the skills to effectively select and deploy appropriate internetworking technologies.Who Should Attend Network managers, technicians, engineers and consultants involved in designing, implementing or managing networks. Knowledge of computer networking principles at the level of Course 450, "Networking Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed.Hands-On Training Hands-on exercises provide you with experience deploying routers and switches. Exercises include:
- Implementing a new switch and router from initial factory configuration
- Installing a switched network
- Testing continuity with ICMP ping
- Configuring and testing IP addresses, subnets, default gateways
- Dissecting a switch and a router to expose security weaknesses
- Switching deployment with VLANs & Spanning Tree
- Capturing passwords with a protocol analyzer
Course 364 Content
- Motivations for internetworking
- Connecting the enterprise
- Defining internetworking and interoperability
- Deploying the OSI Reference Model
- Large internetworking considerations
- Overview of LAN standards
- IEEE 802 architecture
- CSMA/CD Media Access Control
- Frame formats, HDX, FDX
- 10/100/1000BASE-T
- Media choices: mixing copper and fiber
- Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gbit/s
- Media choices: CAT 5e, 6, MMF, SMF
- 802.11 wireless LAN standards
- The wireless office
- Access points and routers
- Security issues
- Antenna types
- Store-and-forward switching
- Transparent learning devices
- Building resilience with Spanning Tree
- Switch performance metrics
- VLAN concepts
- IEEE 802.1Q tag-based VLANs
- IEEE 802.1p priority scheme
- Support for backbone technologies
- Multilayer switching between LANs
- Building and enhancing access LANs
- Deploying backbone and core switches
- Leased line and dial-up circuits
- Internet access: xDSL and cable
- Frame relay and ATM services
- Fundamental concepts
- Resilience, redundancy and performance
- The importance of routers
- Router operation
- Network layer functions
- Address administration and subnetting
- Direct and indirect routing
- Static and dynamic routing methods
- Routing protocols functions
- Route propagation
- Distance Vector vs. Link State protocols
- Autonomous system routing
- Interior gateway protocols
- RIPv, RIPv2 and OSPF
- Protocol security vulnerabilities
- Exterior gateway protocols
- Policy-based routing
- Connecting autonomous systems with BGP
- Motivation for IPv6
- Encrypting data with IPsec
- Addressing concepts
- Neighbor discovery
- Fair queuing techniques
- Priority by protocol and application type
- Priority and congestion control
- HTTPS
- SSH
- VPN
- Managing networks with SNMP
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