Course Description
General Description:This course is a combination of two courses: WDBWL - Deploying Cisco Basic Wireless LANs v1.2 and WDAWL - Deploying Advanced Cisco Wireless LANs v1.2.
This course provides high-level information about the optional but recommended network management and services appliance components of a Cisco Unified Wireless Network - the Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) and Mobility Services Engine (MSE) - but does not provide hands-on labs and in-depth coverage of these components. The Cisco management platform and MSE are covered in more depth in a separate course: MWNPI - Managing Wireless Networks with Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
This course takes you beyond the WLAN terms, concepts, protocols, architecture, and WLAN characteristics introduced in the Defining Cisco Wireless LAN Essentials (WLE) e-Learning course. In this course, you will investigate the components, features, and deployment aspects of the system. You will have the opportunity to reinforce what you learn with hands-on labs. This course focuses on the essential network elements of a WLAN: the access points (APs) and wireless LAN controllers (WLCs).
In the WDAWL section, you will be presented with more challenging real-world deployments such as client mobility between subnets, high-client density deployments, and mesh network deployments. You will be able to make network design decisions, configure, and troubleshoot WLANs that encounter these challenges. The course is updated through Wireless LAN Controller and AP code release 8.1, which includes new in-demand features such as 802.11ac design awareness, iBeaconing, Apple 802.11v integration, AVC enhancements, FlexConnect enhancements, ease-of-use enhancements, as well as many more customer requested enhancements.
Highlights: - Plan, install, configure, troubleshoot, monitor and maintain basic Cisco Wireless LAN solutions in a customer enterprise environment
- Configure autonomous, unified, and FlexConnect architectures
- Configure all base feature sets, including wireless security
- Administer the WLAN network
- Maintain and troubleshoot basic wireless networks
- Make network design decisions, configure, and troubleshoot WLANs for complex wireless LAN installations such as client mobility between subnets, high client density deployments and mesh network deployments
Agenda
Deploying Cisco Basic Wireless LANs v1.0 (WDBWL):
1.
Cisco Wireless LAN Essentials Refresher
- High-level review of the prerequisite course, WLE - Defining Cisco Wireless LAN
Essentials
2. Pre-Deployment Planning
- Wireless deployments and pre-deployment planning
- Cisco WLAN professional services
- Spectrum expert
- PI planning
tools
3. Autonomous Deployments
- Easy setup GUI interface
- Basic setup via CLI
- Access
point modes
- Bridge modes
- Non-client serving modes
4. Unified Deployments
- Initial controller setup and configure basic settings
- Modes of operation available for a unified access point
- Mechanisms by which an AP associates to a WLC
- User interfaces to the system
- Radio resource management and CleanAir
- Administering WLANs and AP groups
- Configuring quality of service
- IPv6 Support
- Identify and
configure the WLAN security parameters
- General administration
- Guest access
5. FlexConnect Deployments
- Benefits and limitations of FlexConnect architecture
- Operational differences between FlexConnect and unified architectures
6.
Wireless LAN Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- Routine maintenance
- Policy
configuration and management
- Gathering data
- Troubleshooting in a Cisco Unified Wireless Network
Deploying Cisco
Advanced Wireless LANs v1.0 (WDAWL):
1. Client
Mobility
- Same subnet
roaming
- Inter-subnet
mobility
2. High Density Deployment Challenges
- Effects of client density on a
wireless network
- Planning
for areas of high-client density
3. Implementing
Mesh Network
- Describe
wireless mesh networks
- Mesh
network-formation process
- Implementing a mesh network for the enterprise
- Configuring advanced-mesh features
- Troubleshooting a mesh network
Defining Cisco Wireless LAN Essentials
(WLE) (included prereq):
This training defines Wi-Fi and discusses IEEE
standards and protocols. It presents the Cisco wireless LAN network
architectures deployed to meet different business needs, such as autonomous,
unified, FlexConnect, and converged access. You will learn about the various
models of and options for access points, wireless LAN controllers, management
system, policy integration, and mobility services engine, distinguishing the
benefits and limitations of each in the context of real-world solutions.
The course discusses wireless security, a topic that often concerns Enterprises
and Service Providers and covers the various types of authentication and
encryption employed in Cisco wireless LANs. You will be prepared with
information about the kinds of tools often used to plan, implement, and monitor
a Cisco wireless LAN.
This e-learning prepares you for follow-on courses
in the Cisco wireless LAN curriculum, such as Implementing Cisco Converged
Access Solutions and the remainder of the ILT curriculum listed below.
Audience
- Channel Field Engineers
- Cisco Network Consulting
Engineers
- New Unified
Commutations Partners
- Customer Network EngineersAnyone interested in the Cisco Unified Wireless
Network solution that have a strong da