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Course Length: 5 Days

Course Overview

Adding wireless access to voice-over-IP (VoIP) and data networks involves a variety of challenges, including new technologies and services, constantly evolving standards, and some unique obstacles to network security. This course will help students to master these challenges as they learn to add Wi-Fi mobility to wired networks. Using a series of practical labs, this course takes students from basic wireless configuration to deployment of a variety of advanced wireless solutions and components. These include "hot spots" for mobile wireless access, the broadband services manager, VPN, wireless IP phones, and mobile access routers. In addition to building wireless networks, a comprehensive overview of wireless' unique security problems and their solutions will be presented.

Prerequisites

• A strong knowledge of basic networking skills, including Cisco IOS? Software, routing fundamentals, and IP addressing, as covered in Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND).
• CCNA certification is recommended but not required.
• Completed the Advanced Services' Building Cisco SS7 Interconnect and VoIP Networks for Voice and Dial Traffic course

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this solution-based course, students will be able to:

• Given a wired LAN, install and configure a Cisco access point to permit access to the network through computers equipped with wireless cards
• Configure "hot spots" for mobile wireless access, including VPN and Building Broadband Service Manager (BBSM) components
• Identify and describe essential components for wireless LAN authentication and security, including Cisco Extensible Authentication Protocol, IP Security (IPSec), and static Wired
• Equivalent Privacy (WEP), then configure those components
• Configure a mobile access router to provide access to network devices

Course Outline

• Course Introduction
• Wireless Solution Overview
• Selecting Wireless Components
• Configuring Wireless Adapter Cards and Access Points
• Hot Spot Networks
• Building Broadband Services Manager
• Adding VPN to the Wireless Network
• Configuring the Mobile Access Router
• Configuring Cisco Wireless IP Phone 7920