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DCN™ (Designing Cisco® Networks)

Full Course Description

Price: 1795.00

Recognize bottlenecks, growth requirements, constraints, and incorporate current technologies to create a network that is scalable. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to develop and design integrated network solutions. Analyze your company’s current and future network needs and develop a network solution that meets and exceeds your manager’s requirements for performance, security, capacity, and scalability.

 


You Will Learn...

Expert Tools and Strategies to Analyze and Pinpoint Characteristics of Your Company’s Existing Network
Checklists and Procedures for Future Network Needs Requirements
Strategies to Design Network Topologies
Advantages, Disadvantages, Scalability Issues, and Applicability of Internetwork Topologies
Development Strategies for Topology Maps for Internetworking Devices and Interconnecting Media
Standard LAN and WAN Technologies Scalability Constraints and Issues
Constraints and Issues for Routing and Bridging Protocols
Recommended Protocols and Products
Guidelines to Develop a Network Management Strategy
Effective Design Document Principles
Design Models to Validate the Network Design

 


Who Should Attend...

Network engineers, systems administrators, network designers who want CCDA certification, IT managers wanting greater skill in network design.

 


Prerequisites...

You should be familiar with basic internetworking technologies such as LAN, WAN, bridging, switching, protocols, and network management. Understanding Networking Fundamentals and ICND are good foundations for this course.

 

Course Outline

1. Characterize the Existing Network

Gathering Administrative and Technical Data
Tools to Characterize a Network
Netsys Enterprise/Solver Performance Tools
CiscoWorks
Protocol Analyzers
Characterizing a Network
Characterize Existing Network Availability, Performance, Reliability, Utilization, Router Status, Network Management System, Potential Bottlenecks, and Overall Network Health

2. Extract New Customer Requirements

Business Constraints
Manageability, Application, and Security Requirements
New Network Traffic
Performance Requirements
Network Traffic
Traffic Loads and Behavior

3. Design the Topology

Hierarchical Model Analysis and Design
Redundant Models and Secure Models

4. Provision Hardware and Media for the LAN

Layer 2 and Layer 3 Services
Problems Solved With Internetworking
Switching vs. Routing in Network Design
Bandwidth Domains and Broadcast Radiation
Scalability Constraints for Flat Networks
Campus LAN Design
Ethernet Design Rules and Topologies
Propagation Delay
Provisioning Network Media

5. Provision Hardware and Media for the WAN

WAN Design Considerations
Selecting WAN Technology
Provisioning IDBs on Cisco Routers
Switching Modes of Routers
Choosing a Router Platform
Provisioning WAN and Frame Relay Networks
Traffic Shaping Over Frame Relay
Rate Enforcement
Remote Access Solutions

6. Design a Network-Layer Addressing and Naming Model

IP and IPX Addressing
Facilitating Subnetting
Network Address Translation
Cisco DNS/DHCP Manager

7. Select Routing and Bridging Protocols

Routing Protocol Scalability Constraints
Routing Protocol Resource Considerations
Link-State Routing Protocols
OSPF Convergence
Distance Vector Routing Protocols
Distance Vector Topology Changes
IGRP Convergence
AppleTalk Routing Protocol
Interior Routing Protocols
Hybrid Routing Protocol
Enhanced ICRP Convergence
Characterizing Routing Protocols
Distance Vector Routing Problems and Solutions
Bridging Protocols
Transparent Bridging Scalability Issues
Source-Route Bridging

8. Provision Software Features

Goals for Provisioning Router Software
Cisco IOS Software Features

9. Select a Network Management Strategy

Network Management Goals
Network Management Processes
Proactive Network Management
Cisco Multiplatform, Standards-Based Solutions
CiscoWorks Management Applications
CiscoWorks Blue Maps
Remote Monitoring
RMON Specification

10. Write a Design Document and Validate the Network Design

Case Study 1: Analyze existing network specifications.

Case Study 2: Determine client network requirements.

Case Study 3: Create network topology design.

Case Study 4: Evaluate LAN issues.

Case Study 5: Establish WAN connectivity issues.

Case Study 6: Analyze and establish addressing and naming schemes for scalable networks.

Case Study 7: Control routing protocols and bridging for LANs and WANs.

Case Study 8: Identify IOS software features for maximum performance.

Case Study 9: Develop Network Management Strategies.

Case Study 10: Writing effective IT proposals.

Case Study 11: Testing and modeling design proposals.

 

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