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Advanced Switching

Unit code: HIT7714

Credit points12.5 Credit Points
Duration
1 Semester or equivalent
Contact hours60 hrs
CampusHawthorn
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Nil

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

Teaching methods

Lecture (24 hrs) and Practical Classes (36hrs)

Assessment

Skills exam, Online tests, Written exam

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

Reading materials

Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH) Foundation Learning Guide: Foundation learning for the CCNP SWITCH 642-813 Exam, Froom, R.,Sivasubramanian, B., Frahim, E, CiscoPress 2010