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Understanding LAN Technologies |
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| Course Length - 3 Days | | | | | Course Overview This 3-day Understanding LAN Technologies course covers the following topics: - Introduction to Networking
- Networking Protocols
- Transmission Essentials
- LAN Standards
- Switched LANs
- VLANS
- LAN Challenges
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| Course Outline: | | Introduction to Networking | | - Network types
- Capacity and performance issues
- The building blocks of networks
- The user vs. the networker
- Examples implementations
| | | Networking Protocols | | - What are protocols?
- What protocols accomplish
- Network standards
- Protocol models Protocol layering
- Layer functions
| | | Transmission Essentials | | - Metallic media
- Performance
- Cost factors
- Security
- Fiber media
- Fiber types
- Performance
- Cost factors
- Security
- Wireless Connectivity
- Interfacing wireless
- Performance
- Cost factors
- Security
| | | LAN Standards | | - IEEE 802.3 LAN standards
- Legacy LANs
- Media access methods
- Ethernet
- CSMA
- Collision detection
- Repeating hubs
- Fault isolation
- Performance limitations
- Fast Ethernet
- The business case
- Fast Ethernet types
- 100BASE-TX
- 100BASE-T4
- 100BASE-FX
- Topology Limitations
- Gigabit Ethernet
- The business case
- Where Gigabit Ethernet is deployed
- Gigabit Ethernet types
- 10Gigabit Ethernet
- The business case
- Deploying 10gigabit Ethernet
- 10Gigabit types
- Ethernet and alternative LANs compared
- Token ring topologies
- Performance issues
- Why Ethernet is LAN of choice
- Wireless Topologies
- The flavors of 802.11
- Speeds and modulation methods
- Compatibility issues
- Collision avoidance
- Ad hoc WLANs
- Infrastructure WLANS
- Roaming
- Wi-Fi Hot spots
- Performance limitations
- Security mechanisms
- Configuring a secure WLAN
| | | Switched LANs | | - Bridging fundamentals
- Topology restrictions
- Spanning Tree algorithm
- Motivations for switching
- Traffic isolation
- Layer 2 switching
- Layer 3 switching
- Switch architecture
- Strengths and vulnerabilities
- Redundant topologies
- Deploying switched Ethernet
- Topology examples
- Upgrading performance
- Migration strategies
- Example deployments
| | | VLANS | | - The need for Virtual LANS
- VLAN Examples
- Port grouping
- MAC address grouping
- Size and performance constraints
- How VLANS are deployed
| | | LAN Challenges | | - QoS issues in LANs
- VoIP
- Streaming traffic
- Traffic convergence
- Internetworking Issues
- Performance limitations
- Jumbo framing
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