4-day Hands-on Cisco Authorized Course
Course Description
This course is instructor-led training and includes instructor assisted, hands-on labs. This four-day course examines the fundamentals of WLAN technology and provides the foundation for designing and installing the Cisco Unified Wireless Network. Detailed lecture and hands on labs introduce WLAN applications in specific markets, topologies and design concerns, essential equipment, configuration, network management, security and site survey techniques. After completing this course, learners will be able to discuss lightweight access points, controllers as well as autonomous access points.
To participate in the hands-on labs, please bring a laptop computer with an available 32-bit Card-Bus slot and an Ethernet port. The laptop’s operating systems must be either MS Windows 2000 (SP4) or XP. The laptop should also have a 9-pin serial port or USB to serial adapter. IN ADDITION, you will need administrator rights to the laptop to install drivers for the wireless client used in class.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, the student should be able to:
- Describe radio frequencies used in WLAN applications
- Explain how antennas work and what antennas Cisco offers
- Identify components, topologies, and the use of channels for WLANs
- Describe detailed technical features, functions, and benefits of the WLAN product offerings available
- Select the appropriate wireless bridge model and describe how it offers a better solution than the other alternatives
- Configure a Cisco client card with Cisco utilities
- Describe basic configuration processes for bridges and access points
- Secure a WLAN using security methods and products available from Cisco
- Implement a WLAN management solution available from Cisco
- Describe the requirement necessary for deployment and performing a site survey
- Describe the steps, concepts, and tools available while performing a site survey
Intended Audience
The Aironet Wireless LAN Fundamentals and Site Survey course is targeted to technical engineers, network integrators and technical sales personnel, who need to know how to sell, design, install, support wireless networks or tasked with performing or overseeing site surveys for wireless LAN solution implementations.
Prerequisites
There are no recommended prerequisites for this course
Course & Lab Outline
Module 0 -- Course Introduction
Module 1 --Wireless LAN Radio Technologies
- Unlicensed Radio Frequency Bands and Standards
- Spread Spectrum RF Technology and Modulation Techniques for 802.11
- Multipath Distortion and Diversity
Module 2 -- Antenna Concepts
- Antenna Theory
- Antenna Regulation Compliance
- Common Antenna Deployment Questions
Module 3 -- Wireless LAN Topologies
- Wireless LAN Technology Features
- Channels and Multi-rate Shifting
- Wireless Mesh Networking
Module 4 -- Cisco Aironet WLAN Products
- Wireless LAN Access Points. Bridges, Antennas and Accessories
- WLAN Clients
- WLAN Network Management, Control, and Services
- Access Point Enterprise-Class Features
Module 5 – Wireless Bridges
- Wireless Bridges and Alternatives
- Roles in Radio Network
- Bridge Path Information
- Outdoor Bridge Range Calculation Utility (Lab 5-1)
Module 6 -- Aironet Desktop Utility
- Configuration Utilities
- Installing and Configuring Aironet Desktop Utility
- Client Configuration (Lab 6-1)
Module 7 – Core Access Point and Bridge Basic Configuration
- Setting up Autonomous Access Point Hardware
- Configuring the Access Point
- Managing the Access Point
- Setting up and Configuring the Bridge
- Channel, and Data Rates for an Access Point (Lab 7-1)
- Restore the Access Point to Default Data Rates (Lab 7-2)
- Test Throughput to a Lab Server using FTP (Lab 7-3)
Module 8 – Security
- Introducing 802.11 Security
- Defining Vulnerabilities of WLAN Security
- Introducing the Cisco Wireless Security Suite
- Configuring Cisco Secure ACS
- Configuring Encryption and Authentication on Autonomous Access Points
- Configuring Encryption and Authentication on Lightweight Access Points
- Configure the Wireless Client Card and Access Point for WEP (Lab 8-1)
- Configure the Access Point and Cisco Secure for LEAP (Lab 8-2)
- Configure the Access Point for LEAP with WPA Encryption (Lab 8-3)
- Configure the Access Point and Cisco Secure ACS to add MAC Address Authentication to LEAP Authentication (Lab 8-4)
Module 9 – Site Survey Preparation and Techniques
- Determining the Deployment Requirements for a Site Survey
- Performing a Site Survey
Module 10 – Manua l Site Survey Tools and Utilities
- Identifying Site Survey Tools
- Using Site Survey Utilities
- Using AirMagnet Site Survey Tool for a Manual Survey
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