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You Will Learn How To
- Install, configure and troubleshoot a wireless LAN
- Survey, troubleshoot and optimise Wi-Fi LANs for speed and coverage
- Establish large-scale networks with multiple access points and roaming
- Build, deploy and integrate enterprise WLANs
- Secure data with wireless encryption standards and virtual private networks
- Restrict access with authentication protocols
Course Benefits
Wi-Fi networks are the dominant global standard for wireless LANs. Efficiently installing and maintaining these networks requires skilled professionals. In this course, you gain the skills to deploy, troubleshoot and secure wireless networks, and to make informed decisions about Wi-Fi technologies and products. You learn how the technology works and how to plan, optimise and extend the network beyond short range.
Who Should Attend
This course is valuable for anyone involved in evaluating, planning, designing or implementing Wi-Fi wireless networks. Course 450, "Networking Comprehensive Introduction", is assumed.
Hands-on Training
You'll gain hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks. Exercises include:
- Installing and configuring an access point
- Capturing 802.11 packet data
- Optimising data rate and output power
- Measuring and reducing interference
- Benchmarking and comparing throughput
- Performing a site survey
- Encrypting wireless data with WPA and VPN tunnels
- Authenticating wireless users with EAP
- Deploying multiple access points and repeaters
- Connecting to mobile applications
Course Content
- Mobility
- Flexibility
- Scalability
- Cost
- Compatibility
- Configuring adapters and access points
- Establishing shared Internet connections
- Integrating with wired LANs
- 802.11a, g and n
- Radio bands
- Channels
- Range
- Regulations
- 802.11n
- MIMO
- Capturing beacons and probes
- Defining authentication and association
- Evaluating spread spectrum techniques
- Scanning Wi-Fi channels
- Measuring signal strength
- Attenuation effects of building materials
- Broadband vs. narrowband
- Detecting channel interference
- Limiting 802.11g and 802.11n interference
- Configuring rate-shifting options
- Controlling transmitter power
- Fine-tuning access point deployment
- Increasing coverage with Mesh Networks and Repeaters
- Avoiding congestion effects
- Setting RTS/CTS thresholds
- Comparing antenna characteristics
- Omni
- Yagi
- Parabolic
- Panel
- Choosing antenna cabling and hardware
- Creating the Extended Service Set (ESS)
- Fast Secure Roaming (FSR) and 802.11r
- Backhaul with 802.16 Wi-Max
- Exploiting site-planning software
- Point-to-point and multipoint links
- Calculating a Link Budget
- Wireless and workgroup bridges
- Merging with Cisco VLANs
- Central control with WLAN switches and gateways
- Employing network analysis tools
- Capturing unencrypted data
- Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
- Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2) and 802.11i
- Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
- Measuring encryption overhead
- Implementing a short-range VPN
- Tunneling through the wireless LAN
- Configuring the VPN server and client
- Examining the routing table
- Controlling access by MAC address
- Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
- Connecting to a RADIUS server
- Rich-client or browser interfaces
- VS 2005 vs. Java micro edition
- Mobile inventory applications
- User interface choices
- Mobile access to Microsoft SharePoint
- Voice over IP (VoIP) applications
- Quality of Service (QoS) with 802.11e
- Finding and connecting to public hotspots
- Setting up a local hotspot
- Identifying payment models
- Authenticating users with captive portals
- Operational support system (OSS) choices
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