Network Design & Management

This course is aimed to prepare students to design and manage various aspects of organizational network. In this course we will cover the different design aspects of small ,medium size and large level network .

This course also enable students to get hands practices on CISCO devices including swittches and router .

Network Design and best practices of managing the networks and this course is aimed to prepare students to design and manage various aspects of
organizational network.

In this course they will learn about different sacemes of network design.

Models of network Design .

Campus area network Design

Secure Network Design Stretigies .

Switching technique at access layer

Routing techniques at Core and distribution layer

Network management tools

1. Analyzing Business Goals and Constraints: Using a Top-Down Network Design Methodology, Analyzing Business Goals, Analyzing Business Constraints. Analyzing
Technical Goals and Tradeoffs: Scalability, Availability, Network Performance, Security, Manageability, Usability, Adaptability, Affordability, Making Network Design Tradeoffs. [TB1: Ch. 1, 2]
2. Characterizing the Existing Internetwork: Characterizing the Network Infrastructure,
Checking the Health of the Existing Internetwork. Characterizing Network Traffic:
Characterizing Traffic Flow, Characterizing Traffic Load, Characterizing Traffic Behavior, Characterizing Quality of Service Requirements. [TB1: Ch. 3, 4]
3. Designing a Network Topology: Hierarchical Network Design, Redundant Network
Design Topologies, Modular Network Design, Designing a Campus Network Design
Topology, Virtual LANs, Wireless LANs, Redundancy and Load Sharing in Wired
LANs, Server Redundancy, Workstation-to-Router Redundancy, Designing the Enterprise Edge Topology, Secure Network Design Topologies. [TB1: Ch. 5]
4. Designing Models for Addressing and Numbering: Guidelines for Assigning Network
Layer Addresses, Designing a Model for Naming. [TB1: Ch. 6]
5. Selecting Switching and Routing Protocols: Making Decisions as Part of the TopDown Network Design Process, Selecting Switching Protocols, Selecting Routing
Protocols, IP Routing. [TB1: Ch. 7]
6. Developing Network Security Strategies: Network Security Design, Security Mechanisms, Modularizing Security Design, [TB1: Ch. 8]
7. Developing Network Management Strategies: Network Management Design, Network Management Architectures, Selecting Network Management Tools and Protocols. [TB1: Ch. 9]
8. Physical Network Design: Selecting Technologies and Devices for Campus Networks:
LAN Cabling Plant Design, LAN Technologies, Selecting Internetworking Devices
for a Campus Network Design, Example of a Campus Network Design. [TB1: Ch. 10]
9. Selecting Technologies and Devices for Enterprise Networks: Remote-Access Technologies, Selecting Remote-Access Devices for an Enterprise, WAN Technologies,
Example of a WAN Design. [TB1: Ch. 11]
10. Testing Network Design: Using Industry Tests, Building and Testing a Prototype
Network System, Writing and Implementing a Test Plan for Network Design, Tools
for Testing a Network Design. [TB1: Ch. 12]
11. Optimizing Network Design: Optimizing Bandwidth Usage with IP Multicast Technologies, Reducing Serialization Delay, Optimizing Network Performance to Meet
Quality of Service Requirements, Cisco IOS Features for Optimizing Network Performance. Documenting Network Design: Responding to a Customer‘s Request for
Proposal, Contents of a Network Design Document [TB1: Ch. 13, 14].