Audience

System engineers and network designers who have a knowledge of internetworking and Cisco products

Prerequisites

The Cisco IOS 11.3: ICRC curriculum

Course Aim

To enable the student to characterize an existing network and define user requirements

Learning Objectives

Identify all the data required to characterize the customer's existing network. List the network's current applications, protocols, topology, and number of users. Summarize the business issues that are relevant to a network design project. Assess the customer's existing network and its ability to support growth. Determine the customer's requirements for protocols, number of users, peak usage hours, security, network management, and new applications. Outline the flow of information for new applications. Identify the customer's criteria for accepting the performance of a network. Suggest some tools that will help characterize new network traffic. Estimate the amount and the type of traffic caused by applications.

Topics Covered

Technology and concepts - Role of CCDA - Layer-2 and layer-3 services - Network challenges and solutions Characterizing the existing network - Guidelines for gathering data - Analyzing network data - Hands-on: Characterizing a network Customer requirements - Determining network requirements - Network traffic - Traffic loads and behavior - Hands-on: Assessing network requirements

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