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Understanding Wide Area Networking
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Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Code: PDN055
Course Description:
Wide Area Networks (WAN's) form the basis for most communications systems we use today. This two day course will give you an overview of most of the major technologies used in todays WAN's.
Prerequisites:
Delegates should have an understanding of IT principles.
This course includes the following modules:
PDH Leased Lines
- PDH data rates,
- G.704 Framing
- Frequency justification
- Multiframe structures
- Error detection
- Multiplexing hierarchy E1 to E4
SDH and SONET
- SDH and SONET comparison and data rates
- Relating SDH and PDH
- SDH paths and virtual containers
- SDH multiplexing
- Concatenated containers
- Tributary mapping into virtual containers
- Alarm indication
- SONET hierarchy compared with SDH
- Virtual tributaries
- SONET section overhead
- Virtual tributaries
- SONET section overhead
- SONET path overhead
- Mapping between SDH and SONET
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- What does an ATM network look like?
- The basic principles of cell switching
- Connection identifiers and how they are used
- ATM connection characteristics
- Virtual channels and virtual paths, why they are there and when they are used
- ATM layer Operation And Maintenance (OAM)
- The ATM Cell header format, at the UNI and NNI
- The ATM protocol architecture
- Common layer ATM adaptation protocols (AAL1/AAL2/AAL5)
- Adaptation convergence sublayer and SAR sublayers
- The main physical layers used by ATM
- ATM over SDH and PDH networks
- ATM service categories, CBR, rt-VBR, nrt-VBR, UBR, ABR, GFR
- ATM traffic contracts
- Sizing considerations for ATM networks
- Traffic policing and traffic shaping
- Traffic Control Functions
- The Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (Leaky Bucket Algorithm)
- Address assignment in ATM networks
- The components of ATM signalling
- ATM signalling protocols
- Comparison with public routeing protocols, SS7 and BISUP
- The ATM network management architecture
- Local management in ATM (ILMI)
Frame Relay
- Frame Relay as a connection oriented packet switched network
- Frame Relay packet format
- Extended header formats
- Frame Relay service features
- Local Management Interface
- Consolidated Link Layer Management
- Standard MIBs for Frame Relay
- Congestion in Frame Relay networks
- Connection policing by the network
- Discard Eligibility and how it is used
- The use of FECN and BECN control bits
- Frame Relay interworking with ATM FRF.5 and FRF.8
- Real time application support in Frame Relay
X.25 Overview
- Architecture, logical and physical
- Multiplexing and service in X.25
- Signalling and addressing
- Features and facilities of X.25
- LAN Interconnection via X.25
- X.25 Hosts
IP packet encapsulation
- Ethernet encapsulation
- LLC/SNAP encapsulation
- Tunnelling IP over Frame Relay or ATM
- Multiprotocol encapsulation over Frame Relay
- Multiprotocol encapsulation over ATM
- IP over leased lines using PPP
- Packet (IP) over SDH/SONET
Review of IP routeing
- Configuring the network for routeing
- Learning about local routers
- Router configuration
- Dynamic and static routes
- Distance Vector and Link State Routeing algorithms
- Routeing Information Protocol (RIP)
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
- Route redistribution
- Wide area routeing
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