STP alternatives training course description The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) dates from 1985. This course explores the technologies that can be used as an alternative to STP, including FabricPath, SPB and TRILL. What will you learn Explain how STP and RSTP work. Explain how TRILL works. Explain how SPB works. Explain how FabricPath works. STP alternatives training course details Who will benefit: Technical network staff. Prerequisites: Definitive Ethernet switching for engineers Duration 1 day STP alternatives training course contents Introduction Layer 2 versus Layer 3, STP problems: One path, convergence, MAC explosion, STP alternatives. STP 802.1D, how STP works, root bridge, convergence times, single path. RSTP 802.1w, Improvements, convergence times. Link aggregation 802.3ad, Multi system Link aggregation. IS-IS Concepts, Discovery, topology exchange, flooding. Changes for TRILL, FabricPath and SPB. FabricPath Overview, architecture, control plane protocols, DRAP, STP interactions, packet forwarding, configuration. TRILL Concepts, RBridge, TRILL frames, control plane, data plane, learning MAC addresses. SPB 802.1aq, Node ID, Backbone Edge Bridges, Backbone MAC address, customer MACs, I-SID, forwarding database.
Samba training course description Samba enables UNIX/Linux machines to act as Microsoft File and Print servers. This two day hands on training course progresses from the basics of installing samba and simple configurations through to authentication issues and troubleshooting. What will you learn Install and configure Samba. Administrate file and printer sharing. Secure Samba servers. Troubleshoot Samba Samba training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Samba. Prerequisites: Intro to UNIX Systems Administration TCP/IP Foundation. Duration 2 days Samba training course contents What is Samba? File and print servers, Samba server roles, Windows networking, NetBIOS, SMB. Hands on Microsoft File and Print shares, analysing the network traffic. Installing Samba Source, binaries, where to find samba, building and compiling Samba. Hands on Download and install Samba. Controlling Samba Samba daemons, starting and stopping Samba, smbcontrol, Samba net command, smb.conf. Viewing Samba status, smbclient. Hands on Starting and stopping Samba, testing the server. Samba configuration Simple shares, smb.conf variables, configuration from a web browser, swat, enabling access to swat. Hands on Configuring samba servers and clients. File sharing Basic shares, [homes], locking options, UNIX file permissions, controlling user access, Windows ACLs, virtual samba servers, browsing. Hands on File sharing and browsing. Print sharing Sharing printers, UNIX printing, CUPS, printer drivers, [printers], PRINT$. Hands on Samba print server. Authentication Workgroups, domains, users and passwords, Samba domain security, Samba password backends: smbpasswd, tdbsam, nisplus, mysql, Active Directory. Hands on Securing samba shares. Troubleshooting Logging options, controlling logs, Samba utilities, network protocols, .SMB/CIFS. Performance tuning. Hands on Troubleshooting Samba
Junos Service Provider Switching training course description This course provides students with an overview of switching concepts such as LANs, Layer 2 address learning, bridging, virtual LANs (VLANs), provider bridging, VLAN translation, spanning-tree protocols, and Ethernet Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM). This course also covers Junos operating system-specific implementations. Junos Service Provider Switching is an intermediatelevel course. What will you learn Describe carrier Ethernet. Describe the function of an Ethernet LAN. Implement VLAN tagging. Describe the components of provider bridging. Identify and use available tools to resolve network issues. Configure and monitor Ethernet OAM, ERP, LAG, STP, the RSTP, the MSTP, and the VSTP. Junos Service Provider Switching training course details Who will benefit: Individuals responsible for configuring and monitoring devices running the Junos OS. Prerequisites: Junos Intermediate Routing Duration 2 days Junos Service Provider Switching training course contents Ethernet Switching and Virtual LANs Ethernet LANs Bridging Configuring and Monitoring VLANs Automating VLAN Administration Configuring and Monitoring IRB Layer 2 Address Learning and Forwarding Layer 2 Firewall Filtering Ethernet Switching and VLANs Lab Virtual Switches Routing Instances Overview Configuring and Monitoring Virtual Switches Interconnecting Routing Instances Logical Systems Virtual Switches Lab Provider Bridging Expanding the Bridged Network Provider Bridging Configuring and Monitoring Provider Bridging Provider Bridging Lab Spanning-Tree Protocols Overview of STP Overview of RSTP Overview of MSTP Overview of VSTP Configuring and Monitoring Spanning-Tree Protocols Understanding BPDU, Loop, and Root Protection MSTP Lab Ethernet OAM OAM Overview LFM CFM Configuring and Monitoring Ethernet OAM Ethernet OAM Lab High Availability and Network Optimization ERP Overview Configuring and Monitoring ERP Link Aggregation Group Overview Configuring and Monitoring a LAG MC-LAG Overview Configuring and Monitoring an MC-LAG High Availability and Network Optimization Lab Troubleshooting and Monitoring Introduction to Troubleshooting and Monitoring Troubleshooting and Monitoring Tools Troubleshooting Case Study: Network Congestion Troubleshooting and Monitoring Lab Appendix A: Carrier Ethernet Ethernet in the WAN Ethernet Standards Organizations MX Series Layer 2 Features Appendix B: Deprecated Syntaxes Appendix C: MX Series Overview
IP CCTV training course description This hands on course covers the technologies used in IP CCTV systems. The focus is not on operating or cabling but more advanced configuration and troubleshooting. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific manufacturer equipment. What will you learn Install IP CCTV. Configure IP CCTV. Explain how IP CCTV protocols work. Troubleshoot IP CCTV. IP CCTV training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with IP CCTV. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days IP CCTV training course contents Introduction What is IP CCTV? Camera types, Video, Audio, two way audio, IP CCTV software. Hands on Installing IP CCTV. CCTV architecture Components, servers, storage, LANs, WANs. Centralised versus decentralised. Hands on Using IP CCTV. Ethernet What is Ethernet? Ethernet cabling, Inside versus outside, hubs, switches, PoE, VLANs. Hands on Ethernet connectivity. Wireless WiFi, other wireless solutions, 802.11, variations, frequencies, Access Points, bridges, repeaters. WEP, WPA, WPA2, Hands on WiFi Configuration Ways to configure, IP addresses, subnet mask, default gateway, DHCP, NAT, access from the Internet. Hands on CCTV configuration. How IP CCTV works TCP, UDP, IP, RTP, RTSP, SIP, PTZ, NTP, Wireshark. Port numbers. Hands on Using Wireshark to troubleshoot IP CCTV. Network issues with IP CCTV Bandwidth, video resolution, compressions, codecs, frame rates, audio. QoS. One way versus two way traffic. Hands on Analysing CCTV traffic. Security VPNs, Firewalls. Hands on CCTV through a firewall. Troubleshooting ping, tracert, arp, ipconfig, pathping, tracert. Cable issues, switch issues, WiFi issues.CCTV issues. Hands on CCTV troubleshooting. Miscellaneous Design issues, multicasting, gateways. DVR technology. Calculating storage requirements.
WhatsUp Gold training course description A hands on course focusing on network management using WhatsUp Gold. What will you learn Discover devices using WhatsUp Gold. Use WhatsUp Gold. Poll and monitor devices using WhatsUp Gold. Create Alarms, alerts and reports. Diagnose faults using WhatsUp Gold. Administrate a WhatsUp Gold system. WhatsUp Gold training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with WhatsUp Gold. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days WhatsUp Gold for engineers Getting started with WhatsUp Gold Starting WhatsUp Gold, manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, mapping network devices. Hands on Using WhatsUp Gold. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs. Hands on Device discovery. Adding devices. Customising maps. Using WhatsUp Gold Polling, obtaining MIB information, MIB walking, Active monitors, critical monitors, passive monitors. Hands on Monitoring devices. Groups. MIB walking. SNMP trap monitor. Syslog monitor. Alarms Actions, Alert centre, thresholds, actions on events. Hands on Using the alert centre. Web tools. Reports Creating reports, automatic reports, customising reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. Administration Users, backups, the database. Hands on Adding a user. Backups.
Advanced HP switches training course description A hands on course covering advanced features of HP switches. The focus of the course is on Layer 3 switching advanced features. Delegates will benefit the most from this course if they can supply us with their own configurations before the course. These configurations can then be used by the trainer in the course. What will you learn Configure and troubleshoot HP layer 3 switching. Configure and troubleshoot OSPF Harden HP switches. Explain the majority of their own configurations (if configurations are supplied to us before the course). Advanced HP switches training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with HP switches. Prerequisites: HP switches for engineers. Duration 2 days Advanced HP switches training course content Introduction VLAN review. Tagged and untagged ports. MSTP, PVST, UDLD, BPDU guard. Hands on VLANs, diagnostic tools debug, LLDP, remote port mirroring. L3 switching What are L3 switches? L3 lite, IPv4 and IPv6, routing protocols, routing tables. IP address on VLAN, no ip address on VLAN, connected interfaces, RIP. Hands on Routing between VLANs. Configuring and troubleshooting RIP. VRRP Default gateways, dead router detection, resilience. Hands on Configuring and troubleshooting VRRP. Static routes Why use static routes? Configuring static routes, default routes. OSPF Link state protocols, operation. Router types, LSA types, area 0. Hands on Configuring and troubleshooting OSPF. QoS Layer 2 QoS, 802.1Q, priorities, dscp mapping, rate limiting. Access lists Filtering traffic through the switch, controlling access to the switch, enabling and disabling ACLs, standard ACLs, extended ACLs Security DHCP snooping, ARP protection, STP guards, switch hardening. Summary Walkthrough of delegate configurations.
4G training course description This course is designed to give the delegate an understanding of the technologies used within a 3G UMTS mobile network. During the course we will investigate the UMTS air interface and the use of Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) to facilitate high speed data access, together with HSPA to offer mobile broadband services. We will describe the use of soft handover rather than hard handover procedures and soft capacity sharing. The course includes a brief exploration of the UMTS protocol stack and the use of PDP Context and QoS support features. What will you learn Explain the 3G UMTS architecture. Describe the role of a Drifting & Serving RNC. Explain the use of ARQ & HARQ for mobile broadband. Describe how IMS integrates into the architecture. Describe the use of Media Gateway Controllers. Identify the temporary identities used within 3G UMTS. 4G training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working within the telecommunications area, especially within the mobile environment. Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified Telecommunications Introduction Duration 2 days 4G training course contents LTE Introduction The path to LTE, 3GPP. LTE to LTE advanced. LTE Architecture The core, Access, roaming. Protocols: User plane, Control plane. Example information flows. Bearer management. Spectrum allocation. LTE technologies Transmission, reception, OFDMA, multiple antenna, MIMO. LTE Air interface Air interface protocol stack. Channels, Resource Grid, cell acquisition. Up and downlink controls. Layer 2 protocols. Cell acquisition Power on, selecting networks and cells. RRC connection. Attach procedure. Mobility management Roaming, RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED, cell reselection, handover, interoperation with UMTS and GSM networks. Voice and text IMS, QoS, policy and charging.
HP iMC for engineers training course description A hands on course focusing on network management using HP iMC on Microsoft Windows or UNIX. What will you learn Describe the network management architecture. Use HP NNMi. Diagnose faults using HP iMC. Recognise the MIB structure. HP iMC for engineers training course details Who will benefit: Network administrators. Network operators Those wishing to find out more about how their NMS works Anyone wishing to implement NFV using OpenStack. Prerequisites: Introduction to Virtualization Duration 2 day HP iMC for engineers training course content Network management What is network management? Benefits, issues. Getting started with HP iMC Starting HP iMC, IP discovery, IP monitoring, controlling IP discovery. Hands on Initial HP iMC configuration. Using HP iMC Viewing devices, Device view, IP view, network view, polling. Hands on Using HP iMC. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. Hands on Configuring network devices for HP iMC. Parts of SNMP SNMP architecture, MIBs, The protocol. HP iMC SNMP configuration. Hands on HP iMC SNMP configuration. MIBs The MIB2 groups, additional MIBs, MIB compilers, vendor MIBs. HP iMC MIB loader and browser. Hands on MIB browsing. Monitoring devices Polling, obtaining MIB information. Hands on HP iMC performance management. Configuration and change management Configuration templates, software library, configuration compare, configuration audit and reports. Hands on Using the configuration center. Reports Report templates, Real time reports, scheduling reports. Hands on Using real time reports. HP iMC fault management Alarms, polling, fault management, setting thresholds and configuring traps. Syslog. Hands on Working with alarms. Security alarms.
3G training course description This course is designed to give the delegate an understanding of the technologies used within a 3G UMTS mobile network. During the course we will investigate the UMTS air interface and the use of Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) to facilitate high speed data access, together with HSPA to offer mobile broadband services. We will describe the use of soft handover rather than hard handover procedures and soft capacity sharing. The course includes a brief exploration of the UMTS protocol stack and the use of PDP Context and QoS support features. What will you learn Explain the 3G UMTS architecture. Describe the role of a Drifting & Serving RNC. Explain the use of ARQ & HARQ for mobile broadband. Describe how IMS integrates into the architecture. Describe the use of Media Gateway Controllers. Identify the temporary identities used within 3G UMTS. 3G training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working within the telecommunications area, especially within the mobile environment. Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified Telecommunications Introduction Duration 2 days 3G training course contents D3GPP specifications 3GPP standards body, Evolution path, Frequency and bandwidth, Conceptual model, UMTS general architecture, UTRAN architecture & radio access bearer. CDMA principles CDMA principle, Code characteristics, Code requirements. CDMA requirements Synchronization, Power control, Soft handover, Rake receiver, Antenna consideration, Multi-user detection. Radio interface protocol architecture Access stratum & non-access stratum, Overall protocol structure, Logical and transport channels, Physical channels, Protocol termination. Layer 2 Protocols Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol, Radio Link Control (RLC) Protocol, Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) protocol, Radio Interface for Broadcast/Multicast Services. Radio Resource Control (RRC) Protocol RRC Architecture, RRC Protocol State, Broadcast of information, RRC connection management, Radio bearer management, RRC connection mobility functions, Power control, Ciphering and Integrity. Mobile procedures Mobility management states and transitions, UMTS identities, Procedures in Idle mode (location updates, cell selection/ re-selection), Circuit-switched call set-up, Packet-switched context activation and context preservation, Data transfer initialization, Soft-handover procedure. Introduction to HSPA The need for high speed data, Fast HARQ, Improved scheduling, Additional channels, Soft combining, HS-DSCH codes, Uplink HSPA vs downlink HSPA, Full HSPA, Use of MIMO, Enhanced CELL_FACH.
Advanced Asterisk training course description This 2 day hands-on Asterisk training course covers advanced Asterisk configuration including fault tolerant clusters, upgrading and patching Asterisk servers, firewall and NAT transversal, using databases to store Asterisk data. Practical sessions follow each major section to reinforce the theory. What will you learn Configure advanced Asterisk features. Utilise databases from Asterisk Integrate Asterisk with SIP servers. Build High Availability Asterisk clusters. Maintain and secure Asterisk servers. Advanced Asterisk training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with or evaluating Asterisk. Prerequisites: Definitive Asterisk for engineers Duration 2 days Advanced Asterisk training course contents Best Practice Review of basics, Channel best practice, dial plan best practise. Call Centre Features GUI, Asterisk Manager Interface, billing, CDR, advanced IVR, ACD, Vici Dial. Hands on Install Vici-Dial Asterisk and Databases MySQL, LDAP, ODBC, dial plan from a Database, storing CDR in a Database, Hands on Dial plan in MySQL, CDR in MySQL. TDM over Ethernet What is TDMoE, Asterisk to Asterisk TDMoE, Phone Bridge. Hands on * 2 * via TDMoE. High Availability Asterisk HA Linux - Virtual Servers, Fail-over steps, setting up HA Linux, configuring Asterisk for fail-over on HA Linux, Hands on Configure Asterisk HA. Advanced Dial plans Asterisk Gateway Interface, AGI IVR applications, Multiple switches sharing Dial plans, ENUM, DUNDI. Hands on Configure DUNDI. Integration Legacy PBX, SIP Proxys, OpenSER. Hands on Configure SER to work with Asterisk. Asterisk Maintenance Asterisk upgrades, implementing patches, advanced debugging, Security Firewalls, NAT, Asterisk security issues. Hands on Configure Asterisk to work through a Firewall and NAT.