Advanced Switching
Unit code: HIT7714
| Credit points | 12.5 Credit Points |
| Duration | 1 Semester or equivalent |
| Contact hours | 60 hrs |
| Campus | Hawthorn |
| Prerequisites | Preclusion: HET714 Internetwork Switching |
| Corequisites | Nil |
Related course(s)
Aims and objectives
- Understand the Enterprise Campus Network design
- Understand the PPDIOO Lifecycle Approach to Network Design and Implementation
- Understand and implement VLAN technologies in a Campus network
- Plan, configure, and verify trunking, Private VLANs, link aggregation with Etherchannel
- Understand Spanning Tree protocols
- Configure, verify and troubleshoot Basic, Rapid and Multiple Spanning Tree
- Configure Inter-VLAN routing and DHCP in a Multilayer Switched environment
- Understand how to deploy CEF-based Multilayer Switching
- Understand and impermanent High Availability
- Understand, configure and verify First Hop redundncy protocols
- Understand, configure, and verify security in the Campus infrastructure
- Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot switch performance, connectivity and security issues
- Plan for wireless, voice and video application in the Campus network
- Understand Quos
- Prepare the Campus infrastructure to support wireless, voice and video
Generic skills outcomes
The graduate attributes that relate to this unit of study help to produce graduates who have:
- in-depth technical competence in at least one engineering discipline
- ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solutions
- ability to utilise a systems approach to design operational performance
Content
- Analyzing the Cisco Enterprise Campus architecture
- Implementing VLANs in Campus networks
- Implementing Spanning Tree
- Implementing Inter-VLAN routing
- Implementing high availability and redundancy in a Campus network
- Securing the Campus infrastructure
- Preparing the Campus infrastructure for advanced services
