Overview
Over 7 hours of video training on Wi-Fi deployment and troubleshooting, from initial design to configuration and frame capture analysis, to help you configure a Wi-Fi network, identify and fix most issues
Description
Wi-Fi Configuration, Deployment, and Troubleshooting LiveLessons is a unique video product that provides users with more than seven hours of personal, visual instruction from wireless expert and instructor, Jerome Henry. The product contains a series of short instructional videos that demonstrates the process of designing, surveying, deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks. The videos cover the full range of topics you need to tweak any wireless network, capture frames, understand the exchanges, and successfully overcome performance issues.
Wi-Fi Configuration, Deployment, and Troubleshooting LiveLessons contains 10 individual video lessons, subdivided into 50 sublessons, for a total of more than seven hours of instruction. The videos consist of audio instruction and animations. Each video presents detailed objectives and video captures. Audio instruction throughout offers detailed explanations and tips.
The 10 video labs cover the following topics:
Lesson 1: Building the "Right" Wireless Network
Lesson 2: Application-specific Needs
Lesson 3: Determining the Right Cell Size
Lesson 4: Site Survey Techniques
Lesson 5: How to Position an AP
Lesson 6: Basic and Advanced Configurations
Lesson 7: Deployment Good and Bad Practices
Lesson 8: When Things Work: Capturing and Understanding Frame Exchanges
Lesson 9: Capturing Exchanges for Troubleshooting - Wireshark & Excel Example
Lesson 10: Troubleshooting Application-specific Issues
About the Instructor
Jerome Henry is Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, focusing on Wi-Fi products. Jerome has more than 12 year experience teaching technical Cisco courses and products in more than 15 different countries and 4 different languages, to audiences ranging from Bachelor degree students to networking professionals and Cisco internal system engineers. Focusing on his wireless experience, Jerome joined Cisco at the beginning of 2013. Before that time, he was consulting and teaching Heterogeneous Networks and Wireless Integration with the European Airespace team, which was later acquired by Cisco to become their main wireless solution. He then became technology leader at a Cisco Learning and Solution Partner before joining Cisco. He is certified wireless networking expert (CWNE #45), CCIE Wireless (#24750), CCNP Wireless, developed several Cisco courses focusing on wireless topics (IUWNE, IUWMS, IUWVN, CUWSS, IAUWS, LBS, CWMN lab guide, etc.) and authored several Wireless books (IUWMS, CUWSS Quick Reference, etc.). Jerome was also elevated to the grade of IEEE 802.11 group Senior Member. With more than 10000 hours in the classroom, Jerome was awarded the IT Training Award best Instructor silver medal in 2009. He is based in Pittsboro, NC.
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Skill Level
· Beginning to Intermediate
What You Will Learn
· Details fundamental concepts behind wireless network design, deployment, and troubleshooting
· Provides visual illustrations of 802.11 exchanges, allowing the user to see the invisible exchanges between wireless clients and access points
· Covers all layers, from the physical layer (including non-802.11 interferences) to the MAC layer (including newer technologies such as 802.11n and 802.11ac)
Who Should Take This Course
Any network administrator or user in charge of configuring, troubleshooting or managing a wireless network is the primary audience for this product. This includes administrators, technicians, and network engineers who are responsible for deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting 802.11 wireless networks. These videos will appeal to any engineer involved in 802.11 wireless management. These videos will also appeal to any individual wishing to get a deeper understanding of 802.11 to better administrate and troubleshoot 802.11 wireless networks.
Course Requirements>
This product focuses on Wi-Fi technologies. Users should have a basic understanding of networking technology. These individuals need not have extensive hands-on experience, since the focus of this product is the underlying RF mechanism and 802.11 exchanges.
Table of Contents
Lesson 1: Building the "Right" Wireless Network
Lesson 1.1 Wireless Network Deployment Phases
Lesson 1.2 Common Verticals Requirements - General Enterprise
Lesson 1.3 Common Verticals Requirements - Healthcare
Lesson 1.4 Common Verticals Requirements - Warehousing and Industrial
Lesson 1.5 Common Verticals Requirements - Stores, Hospitality & Hotspots
Lesson 1.6 Common Verticals Requirements - Education
Lesson 1.7 Common Verticals Requirements - Outdoor
Lesson 2: Application-specific Needs
Lesson 2.1 Roaming vs Nomadic Designs
Lesson 2.2 TCP-Based Application Requirements
Lesson 2.3 UDP-Based Application Requirements
Lesson 2.4 High Density vs High Capacity
Lesson 3: Determining the Right Cell Size
Lesson 3.1 AP Power vs Client Power
Lesson 3.2 Allowed Data Rates and Cell Sizes
Lesson 3.3 Beamforming
Lesson 3.4 Cell Size and Client Dream Speeds
Lesson 3.5 Common Design Practices
Lesson 4: Site Survey Techniques
Lesson 4.1 Identifying Problematic Areas with a Walkthrough
Lesson 4.2 Dealing with Problematic Areas
Lesson 4.3 Survey Types and Tools
Lesson 4.4 How to Survey
Lesson 5: How to Position an AP
Lesson 5.1 Wall Mount vs Ceiling Mount
Lesson 5.2 Antennas
Lesson 5.3 Building Edges
Lesson 5.4 Cell Overlaps
Lesson 5.5 AP Positioning Recommendations
Lesson 6: Basic and Advanced Configurations
Lesson 6.1 Channel and Rate Setup
Lesson 6.2 Power Setup
Lesson 6.3 Security Setup
Lesson 6.4 802.11w
Lesson 6.5 802.11r
Lesson 6.6 802.11k
Lesson 6.7 802.11u
Lesson 7: Deployment Good and Bad Practices
Lesson 7.1 SSIDs
Lesson 7.2 Data Rates
Lesson 7.3 Good and Bad Security
Lesson 7.4 Auto vs Manual
Lesson 8: When Things Work - Capturing and Understanding Frame Exchanges
Lesson 8.1 Common Tests
Lesson 8.2 Capture Tools
Lesson 8.3 Capture Close Look
Lesson 8.4 How to Read a Beacon
Lesson 8.5 How to Read Security Exchanges
Lesson 8.6 How to Read Signal Parameters
Lesson 9: Capturing Exchanges for Troubleshooting - Wireshark & Excel Example
Lesson 9.1 Filtering Packets
Lesson 9.2 Exporting Packets
Lesson 9.3 The Probing Hint
Lesson 9.4 Beacon Interval
Lesson 9.5 Clients in Trouble
Lesson 10: Troubleshooting Application-specific Issues
Lesson 10.1 Layer 2 vs Upper Layers
Lesson 10.2 Troubleshooting Voice
Lesson 10.3 Troubleshooting Video
About LiveLessons Video Training
This video product is part of the Cisco Press
LiveLesson Series. The video products in this series present expert training from industry-leading instructors and technologists. This dynamic learning environment combines animations, screencasts, and audio instruction to help users bridge the gap between conceptual knowledge and hands on application.
LiveLessons Video Training series publishes hundreds of hands-on, expert-led video tutorials covering a wide selection of technology topics designed to teach you the skills you need to succeed. This professional and personal technology video series features world-leading author instructors published by your trusted technology brands: Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, IBM Press, Pearson IT Certification, Prentice Hall, Sams, and Que. Topics include: IT Certification, Programming, Web Development, Mobile Development, Home and Office Technologies, Business and Management, and more. View all LiveLessons on InformIT at:
http://www.informit.com/livelessons.