Detailed Course Outline
Determine Customer Requirements
- Determine key Stakeholders expectations and requirements
- Determine network usage and requirements
- Identify applications to determine throughput and bandwidth, technologies, and products
- Determine security requirements and Authentication and Compliance
- Determine redundancy requirements
- Determine roaming requirements
RF Planning
- RF fundamentals
- RF Planning and Site Survey
- Determine the environment type
- Document wireless RF coverage
- Plan AP physical location
- Selecting APs and antennas
- Channel planning and Airmatch
Aruba Campus Design
- Campus Topology
- Aruba Campus WLAN logical architecture
- Overview of Mobility Manager-based architecture
- Planning the deployment architecture
- Controller Scaling
- Planning and selecting licenses
- Using IRIS
Wired Network Design
- Selecting 2-tier or 3-tier architecture
- VSP and backplane stacking
- L2 vs. L3 design
- Planning the access layer
- Planning the aggregation/core layers
VLANs
- Planning VLANs based on access control requirements
- Planning Wired VLAN in a Multiple VLAN design
- Planning for a wireless large flat VLAN design
Redundancy
- Designing types of redundancy: Mobility Master redundancy, mobility controller redundancy, AP redundancy, switch redundancy, and link-level redundancy
- Mobility Master redundancy
- Mobility Controller redundancy
- Wired Network Redundancy
Planning Quality of Service
- Determine what traffic needs to be prioritized - Overview of real-time applications such as voice and video
- Explain the features the Aruba solutions provide for prioritizing traffic
- Map traffic from wireless user device to AP, to controller, and then onto the wired network
Very High Density (VHD) Design
- VHD Wireless network design
- Planning VHD design for a Wired network
- Planning High Density RF Coverage
Branch and SMB Topologies
- Designing Remote Access and Branch solutions
- Remote Access Points
- Activation using Aruba Activate
- Aruba Instant APs (IAPs)
- Wired solutions for the branch