By Russell Hughes | 43 Min Video | Technical Level: Beginner 

After watching the video, Explaining Wireless Fundamentals, you will be able to describe Cisco options for Wireless network architectures, deployment, and management. This session provides an overview of Cisco wireless networking architectures, deployment, and management options. This topic is part of the self-study portion of the new CCNA course. The main topics include Wireless, WLAN, WLANs, AP, WLC, WLCs, WPAN, WMAN, WiFi, WiFi Channels, and 802.11.

Key Topics:

• Cisco Enterprise Architecture Model – 0:40
• Wireless Technologies – 1:55
• Ad Hoc Networks – 2:59
• WiFi Direct – 4:30
• Infrastructure Mode – 5:03
• Service Set Identifiers – 10:53
• Centralized Wireless Architecture – 11:51
• Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points – 14:21
• Mapping SSIDs to VLANs – 15:09
• Switch Configurations – 16:40
• CAPWAP Communication – 21:05
• Port Connected to Autonomous AP Configuration – 22:52
• Autonomous AP Communication: Locally Switched – 24:18
• Workgroup Bridges – 25:38
• Mesh Networks – 26:18
• WiFi Channels – 28:57
• GHz Comparisons- 34:35
• Other Non-802.11 Radio Interferers – 37:57
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – 38:25
• Domain Name System – 39:10
• Network Time Protocol – 39:47
• Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting – 40:39
• Management Protocols – 41:15
• Command-Line Interface – 41:52

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Instructor Bio:

Russell has over 20 years of experience in the field of networking. He has delivered courses for SLI, formerly CCTI, for fourteen years, specializing in security, content networking, and Voice over IP solutions. Russell started his career in the IT industry as a systems administrator, where he was in charge of daily maintenance of Windows servers, backup solutions, and e-mail. He helped design and build a remote classroom lab solution that allowed CCTI/SLI to deliver Cisco courses anywhere in the world without the need to ship Cisco equipment.