Week 1

Simple Network Design

• Understanding the Host-to-Host Communications Model
• Understanding the TCP/IP Internet Layer

Addresses in a Network

• Introduction to Layer 2 Addresses
• Introduction to IPv4 Addressing and IP Subnets
• Introduction to IPv6 Addresses

Network Address Assignments

• Implementing DHCP
• Implementing DHCP for IPv6
• Manual Configuration

Week 2

Basic Network and Routing Concepts

• Differentiating Routing Protocols
• Understanding Network Technologies
• Configuring Static Routes

 Dynamic Routing Protocols

• Introduction to RIP
• Introduction to OSPF
• Introduction to EIGRP
• Introduction to IS-IS
• Introduction to BGP

 Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

• Configuring RIPv2
• Configuring RIPNG
• Securing RIP
• Troubleshooting and Verifying RIP

EIGRP Implementation

• Establishing EIGRP Neighbor Relationships
• Building the EIGRP Topology Table
• Optimizing EIGRP Behavior
• Configuring EIGRP for IPv6
• Discovering Named EIGRP Configuration
• Securing EIGRP

Week 3

VPN technologies

• Overviewing DMVPN (Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3)
• NHRP Introduction
• DMVPN failure Detection and High availability
• Basic implementation
• Securing DMVPN tunnel using IPsec (DMVPN over IPsec)
• Advanced technology LAB
• Troubleshooting DMVPN

OSPF for IPv4 and IPv6

• Establishing OSPF Neighbor Relationship
• Building the Link State Database
• OSPF Design and LSA
• Scaling OSPF
• OSPF Area types
• OSPF Suboptimal path
• Optimizing OSPF Behavior
• OSPF traffic engineering
• Configuring OSPFv3 (Traditional vs address-family)
• Securing OSPF

*Review DMVPN technology by using OSPF routing protocol

Week 4

IS_IS independent routing protocol

• Addressing scheme
• Levels, Areas and flooding domains
• ISIS metric, Packet Types and Operation
• Configuring ISIS
• ISIS_Authentication
• ISIS for IPv6
• ISIS for Service Providers (intro to migration strategies)

Configuration of Redistribution

• Implementing Basic Routing Protocol Redistribution
• Manipulating Redistribution Using Route Filtering
• Route-map, Prefix-list, Route-control, Default Route, Summarization
• PFR introduction
• Full Scale LAB on IGP routing protocols Part ONE.

Week 5 and 6

BGP is EVERYTHING

• BGP fundamentals, Packet Types, ADJ and peering
• Building BGP Table
• Building Routing Table
• BGP path attributes and Decision Processes
• Basic Configuration (eBGP vs iBGP)
• Route-filtering (basic and regular expression) and Route-summarization
• BGP suppress-map and unsupress-map
• BGP Route Manipulation
• BGP communities, standard and extended, BGP route-Dampening
• BGP confederation and BGP Route-Reflectors
• MP_BGP
• BGP and IPv6

Week 6 and 7

MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) Scale up the network

• MPLS architecture
• Forwarding traffic using Label and tag
• LDP vs TDP
• MPLS Cisco Express Forwarding Switching
• Implementing Path Control
• MPLS VPN introduction using PE_CE strategies (Hub and Spoke model)
• VRF access, Multi VRF and CE Management
• MPLS configuration

Week 8

Multicast Routing

• IP multicast introduction
• Layer 2 multicast overview, IGMP, CGMP and MLD
• Multicast routing, PIM modes
• PIM Dense vs PIM Sparse
• PIM configuration, Static vs auto RP
• Multicast Traffic engineering and forwarding
• IP multicast best practice and group scoping

QoS (Quality of Service)

• QoS overview, requirement and reasons
• Classification and markig
• Policing, Shaping and markdown tools
• Congestion management and avoidance
• Bandwidth reservation mechanisms

• WAN and branch QoS design
• MPLS VPN QoS design

Week 9

IPv6 architecture

• Address types
• GUA, Link local , Private local and multicast
• Dynamic IPv6 address assignement SLAAC, Stateless DHCP v6, Stateful DHCPv6
• ICMPv6 and ICMPv6 ND
• Routing in IPv6
• IPv6 NAT translation NAT64

Week 10

Final Prepration

8 am to 8 pm or later Full scale LAB (semi-assisted) including

• MPLS, BGP, QoS, Multicast, IGP and many others