CellStream, Inc. – Telecom Consulting and Training! |
2.5-Day Instructor Led Hands On Lab Class Available in either Web Based delivery or On-Site Delivery Minimum 10 students – Maximum 16 students |
Course Description:
Advanced understanding of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and Internet Protocol network operation/behavior skills are vital to IP network backbone engineers, support engineers/technicians, engineers that test these networks and equipment that is installed in these networks, as well as development engineers. 
The course is a combination of knowledge training, systems analysis, with hands-on exercises using Cisco routers and Cisco IOS, designed by CellStream consultants to bring the technician/engineer, who knows a little about IP, to a deeper understanding of five specific protocols and concepts: OSPF, BGP, QoS, TCP, and IP Security. A combination of knowledge training, hands-on exercises, and hands-on experience through execution of Command Line interface to Cisco routing labs reveals TCP/IP in a swift, detailed, and understandable way.
Course Objectives:
The objectives of the course are to:
- Develop a “hands-on” skill set targeted at TCP/IP networking in the following key areas:
- MultiProtocol Label Switching
- OSPF Routing protocol, and the control plane of IP
- Quality of Service with IP
- IP Security
- Transmission Control Protocol
- Use and understand selection options of IP routing protocols
- Use and configure fundamental properties of IP Quality of Service
- Understand the IP Networking security benefits, issues and support of IPSec
- Deeper understanding of TCP
These objectives are met by covering the necessary technical bases in a straight forward manner, by keep the content in context of the objectives – connecting the dots. Utilizing a short, subject specific architecture with exercises to drive home key points and Hands-On experience that reveal these points builds skills and knowledge based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. Presentation is industry current and up-to-date using a technology specialists.
Audience:
The target audience for this course is anyone in the telecommunications field that requires a solid and complete understanding of the fundamental operations of the TCP/IP protocol suite in networking, and desires hands-on skills that can be applied to their job function. Ideal candidates are:
- Central Office Technicians, Engineers, and Supervisors
- Line Technicians, and Customer Service Technicians
- Operations individuals that will provide IP configuration and support services
- Development Engineers that must know TCP/IP networking in order to provide hardware and software solutions
- Network Design Engineers that need to understand TCP/IP services and applications
- Network Management individuals that are providing element and network management tools
- Network Administrators and IT professionals
- Technical sales individuals that must be able to correlate features with functionality
- Technical marketing individuals that want more than just a basic understanding of IP
- Certification Track individuals that need to expand their knowledge and studies
Course Prerequisites:
CellStream has designed this course assuming students must complete a hands-on router configuration introductory course (such as our Hands-On TCP/IPv4 Fundamentals class) before attending the Advanced IP course.
All students must attend with a lap-top computer in order to interface to the Router Lab. If the course is held at a classroom where computers are available, the Lap-top computer will not be required.
Course Materials:
Students will be provided with a Course Student Guide and a Lab Guide. Also, a lab system for configuration and labs will be provided.
Related Content:
Some students have found that our approach to mastering IP Addressing provides needed skills towards acquiring further industry certifications such as Cisco CCNA.
Course Outline:
The course outline is as follows:
- Part 1: The Groundwork
- Overview and Introductions
- Introduction/Logistics/Time Frames/Course Plan
- Accessing the Online School content
- LAB: Setting up for Internetworking with the CellStream Router Lab Network
- Part 2: OSPF in Detail
- OSPF Defined
- Basic OSPF configuration
- LAB: OSPF Configuration Lab
- OSPF Protocol Format and Process
- OSPF Fundamentals Lab
- OSPF Adjancencies
- OSPF Link State Advertisement Types
- OSPF Areas
- LAB: OSPF Areas Experiment
- Part 3: Delivering Quality of Service with IP Networks
- Review of IP QoS Fundamentals
- Define the QoS Tools
- Marking Packets – Classification
- Integrated Services
- Differentiated Services
- LAB Exercise/Demonstration: IP Network QoS Baseline
- Cisco MQC Process
- LAB Exercise/Demonstration: Cisco MQC Configuration
- Policing and Shaping
- Policy Based Routing
- LAB Exercise/Demonstration: PBR in an IP Network
- Commited Access Rate
- LAB Exercise/Demonstration: CAR in an IP Network
- Random Early Detection (RED)
- Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)
- Scheduling
- FIFO
- WFQ
- CBWFQ
- Part 4: Security in IPv4 Networks
- Security Terminology
- Types of Hackers
- Group Exercise: Where are vulnerabilities in an IP Network?
- Phases in Hacking
- Attack Types and Vectors
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Malware, Malware Mitigation, Examples
- Personal Awareness
- Default Username/Passwords
- Personal Security – Social Engineering
- Firewalls, Types, Functionality, Rules Examples
- Instrucion Detection Systems
- Penetration Detection Systems
- Scanning, Attacks and Tools
- Scanning Using ARP – demo
- Scanning with nmap – demo
- Local Network Scan mitigation
- MAC Filtering – bypass demo
- Layer 2 Mitigation: PPPoE
- Overview of PPPoE, why Layer 2
- Layer 3 Mitigation: IPSec for VPN Security
- Overview of IPSec
- AH and ESP Protocols and Message Exchange
- Cryptographic Algorithms
- Tunnel and Transport Modes
- IKE – Internet Key Exchange
- LAB Exercise/Demonstration: IPsec Network View and Packet examination
- Encryption Defined
- Diffie-Helman Encryption example
- Layer 5 Mitigation with SSH and HTTPS
- How Does SSH Work?
- Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Encryption
- Hashing
- SSH Process, Authentication
- LAB Exercise/Demonstration: SSH Session Walkthrough and Packet Analysis
- HTTPS Defined
- TLS Version Comparison
- SSL Certificates
- LAB Exercise/Demonstration: HTTPS Process and Decryption Process
- Other Tools
- Scapy packet manipulator – LAB Exercise/Demonstration
- Hping 3 – LAB Exercise/Demonstration
- ARP Spoofing – LAB Exercise/Demonstration
- Wireless Security – LAB Exercise/Demonstration
- Group Exercise: How can we mitigate security vulnerabilities in an IP Network?
- Part 5: Understanding Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP Protocol Characteristics, Format
- TCP Connection States
- Three-Way-Handshake
- TCP Sockets
- TCP Segmentation
- LAB: TCP Three-Way Handshake
- Flow Control, Sliding Windows
- Packet Loss, Re-transmission & TCP Slow Start
- Nagle Algorithm
- LAB: TCP Sliding Windows Lab
Course Availability:
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