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Switches and Routers: A Comprehensive Introduction

Course: 364   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 4 Days
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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 analyser

Course Content
Introduction and Overview
  • Motivations for internetworking
  • Connecting the enterprise
  • Defining internetworking and interoperability
  • Deploying the OSI Reference Model
  • Large internetworking considerations
LAN Technologies
LAN standardisation
  • Overview of LAN standards
  • IEEE 802 architecture
Ethernet
  • CSMA/CD Media Access Control
  • Frame formats, HDX, FDX
  • 10/100/1000BASE-T
  • Media choices: mixing copper and fibre
Backbone technologies
  • Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gbit/s
  • Media choices: CAT 5e, 6, MMF, SMF
Wireless LANs
  • 802.11 wireless LAN standards
  • The wireless office
  • Access points and routers
  • Security issues
  • Antenna types
LAN Switching
Core concepts
  • IEEE 802.1D TST operation
  • Store-and-forward switching
  • Building resilience with Spanning Tree
  • Switch performance metrics
Advanced switching topics
  • VLAN concepts
  • IEEE 802.1Q tag-based VLANs
  • IEEE 802.1p priority scheme
  • Support for backbone technologies
  • Implementing multilayer switches
Deploying switches
  • Collapsed backbone architectures
  • Distributed backbone architectures
  • Enhancing performance using variable bandwidths
Interconnecting LANs
WAN technologies
  • Leased line
  • xDSL
  • Cable modem
  • Frame relay
  • ISDN
  • ATM
Remote connectivity
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Resilience and redundancy
  • Evaluating performance
  • The importance of routers
Routing: The Network Layer
Basic concepts
  • How routers work
  • Protocol layering
  • Function of the network layer
  • Connectionless operation
  • Clarifying IP addressing
Local routing
  • Comparing protocols
  • TCP/UDP: IP, ARP, ICMP
  • Establishing the significance of routing protocols
Routing Protocols
Fundamentals
  • The function of routing protocols
  • Route propagation
  • Distance Vector vs. Link State protocols
  • Autonomous systems
Enterprise routing
  • Interior gateway protocols
  • RIPv1 and RIPv2
  • Deploying OSPF
  • Security vulnerabilities
Beyond the enterprise
  • Exterior gateway protocols
  • Policy-based routing
  • Connecting autonomous systems with BGP
Advanced Internetworking
Migrating to IPv6
  • Motivation for IPv6
  • Encrypting data with IPsec
  • Addressing concepts
  • Neighbour discovery
Prioritisation and congestion control
  • Fair queuing techniques
  • Priority by protocol and application type
Secure remote developments
  • HTTPS
  • SSH
  • VPN
  • Managing networks with SNMP

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