ARCH Designing Cisco Network Service Architecture

Duration: 40 hours

Prerequisites:

Before taking the ARCH course, learners should be familiar with internetworking technologies, Cisco products, and Cisco IOS features.
To gain the prerequisite skills and knowledge, learners must complete the following courses:

• Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO)
• Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND)
• Designing Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN)
• Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)
• Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN)
• Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)

Audience:

Channel Partner / Resellers
Customers
Employees

Course Content:

Given enterprise business and technical requirements and constraints, the student will learn how to perform the conceptual and intermediate design of a network infrastructure that supports the desired network solutions over intelligent network services, to achieve effective performance, scalability, and availability.The student will learn the fundamental aspects of the network design addressing QoS, Security, Network Management, fine-tuning Routing Protocols, Switching Structures and IP Multicast. In addition, the student will leave with Solution Models for solutions and aspects of the network that are strategic to today's Cisco's Customers: Voice over IP and IP Telephony, Content and Storage Networking, Wireless Networking.

Course Objectives:

After completing this course the student should be able to:

• Present the Cisco AVVID framework, its segmentation of the network infrastructure, as well as intelligent network services to support key enterprise network applications and network solutions
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed enterprise campus network and enterprise edge infrastructure designs that offer effective functionality, performance, scalability, and availability, given specified enterprise network needs
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed intelligent network service designs for network management, high availability, security, quality of service, and IP multicast, given specified enterprise network needs
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed virtual private network designs, given specified enterprise network needs
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed wireless network designs, given specified enterprise network needs
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed IP telephony designs, given specified enterprise network needs

Course Outline:

• Introducing Cisco Network Service Architectures
• Designing Enterprise Campus Networks
• Designing Enterprise Edge Connectivity
• Designing Network Management Solutions
• Designing High Availability Solutions
• Designing Security Solutions
• Designing QOS Solutions
• Designing IP Multicast Solutions
• Designing Virtual Private Networks
• Designing Enterprise Wireless Networks
• Designing IP Telephony Solutions