Networking Design & Management
Module Content
Introduction: Elements of enterprise networks: justifications, goals and benefits. Interoperability issues. |
Network Design: Traditional vs. Building Block, geographic scope, design and configuration of clients, servers, circuits and devices, Network Design tools. |
Network Management: Configuration, Fault, Performance and Cost Management, End-user Support, Network Management Tools: Hardware and Software, Performance metrics. Redundancy. SNMPv1, ASN1.0, Basic Encoding Rules, OSI Identifier Tree. |
Network Security: Firewalling, DMZ, subnetting, Application and Protocol Gateways, Network Monitoring Software, Computer malware. |
LAN Technologies: Ethernet, Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11X), Bluetooth. |
WAN Technologies: xDSL, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS, WiMAX, 4G, 5G, VSAT. |
Implementation: NAT, Proxy, Firewall, Domain Servers and other general services e.g. FTP, HTTP, SMTP, DNS, etc... |