This course is designed to introduce the student to the fundamental design concepts and guiding principles that are key to producing good, solid network designs. The student will learn to define and understand the design environment from end users and their applications to the computers and networks that support them. This course takes the view of the network as a set of services in the design.
Occupational Objectives
Accurately complete the network design process: establish design goals, develop criteria for technology evaluation, make technology choices for the design, apply intercommunication mechanisms to the design, integrate network management and security into the design, perform risk analysis and contingency planning, evaluate cable plant and design options, determine network equipment placement, design physical diagrams, establish routing flows in the design environment, manipulate routing flows, develop an addressing strategy, and develop a routing strategy.
- Gather information from customers on their business needs relevant to technology solutions.
- Identify backbone locations and create the backbone topological design
- Identify security threats and solutions, including authentication, encryption, intrusion detection, decoys, and firewalls.
- Select transmission technologies: private lines, POTS, ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, SMDS, SONET, and more
- Identify access locations and associated traffic patterns
- Define a hierarchical network architecture
- Demonstrate knowledge of designing networks with its five major elements, or phases: definition of requirements, preliminary design, management review, final design and business case.
- Demonstrate understanding of Cisco router components and concepts
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic Cisco router commands
- Design Cisco router connectivity
- Understand the concepts of VLANS
- Install and configure Ethernet switches
- Understand troubleshooting techniques including the use of network analysis tools.
- Explain how the solution will solve the customer's problems and meet business needs.
- Demonstrate effective use of library resources at Miami-Jacobs Library and/or other area libraries and apply these research tools in such a way as to enhance the course content.
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