Who Should Attend

This course is designed for a general audience including but not limited to RUCKUS sales personnel, system engineers, VARs, RUCKUS Partners, network managers, support personnel, and company employees desiring a high-level understanding of all RUCKUS products.

This course is strongly recommended for all students wishing to pursue additional RUCKUS networking credentials. 

For those with prior field experience, we provide the RSP- Routing and Switching Protocols Exam to allow you to "test out." Passing the Exam may be required for some RUCKUS BigDog Partner requirements.

Course Description:

This self-paced course provides an extensive view of networking concepts and technologies while exploring the standardized protocols used in networks today. It can also serve as a foundational course preparing students that are entering into the IP networking field needing a working knowledge of a networks structure and function. Studies include the physical and logical understanding of basic networking operations, layer2/3 addressing and standardized multi-vendor supported core, management and monitoring protocols. Multicast forwarding using PIM and IGMP protocols are discussed as well as an overview of popular WAN technologies deployed in the past and present.

Course Objectives: 

After completing this course, attendees should be able to: 

• Describe key network designs as well as network devices
• Describe physical and logical topologies including WAN solutions
• Describe the OSI reference model and the function of each layer
• Describe the TCP/IP model and compare it to the OSI
• Explain the data encapsulation and de-encapsulation process
• Describe physical layer connectivity
• Explain Power over Ethernet
• Discuss Layer 2 solutions including VLAN types and tagging
• Describe L2 redundancy protocols including Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• Explain Link Aggregation using LACP
• Discuss Neighbor Discovery Protocols (LLDP)
• Explain Internet Protocol (IP), including IP addressing versions, subnetting and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
• Describe Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), IP routing tables and routing types
• Explain route metrics and their effects on static, dynamic and Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing
• Describe OSPF protocol, packet types, area types, and link state advertisement (LSA) types and adjacency
• Describe basic BGP functions including Internal BGP (IBGP) and External BGP (EBGP) and basic route advertisements
• Identify multicast traffic at Layer 2 and Layer 3 using protocols PIM and IGMP

Delivery Options:  Self-paced online training

Duration for all modules: Approximately 11 hours 30 minutes