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Designing and Deploying Wireless LANs

Course Type:
Onsite
Duration: 2 Days

Wireless LAN technology is rapidly moving from residential to commercial with products and technologies that allow commercial customers to install a secure, reliable wireless infrastructure. This training program surveys the products, technologies and design techniques for the wireless LAN marketplace. The full range of wireless LAN products is covered, along with practical descriptions of capacities, access protocols, radio interfaces and configuration tools. Particular attention is paid to tools for managing wireless LAN security for a business.

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Who Should Attend

Communications analysts, network managers, MIS professionals and carrier representatives who will be involved with wireless LAN deployments and need a detailed overview of the technology, concepts, terminology and practices.

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What You Will Learn

  • Understand the basic principles of radio transmission, the various sources of signal interference, and rank various building materials by the degree of the impairment they introduce.
  • Review the operation and advantage of digital radio techniques including the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technologies used in 802.11 wireless LANs.
  • Define the unlicensed radio bands that are used for wireless LANs and the status of plans to increase unlicensed spectrum.
  • Describe the Media Access Control protocol developed for 802.11 wireless LANs, the various message types and control exchanges, and the options for supporting real time voice and video.
  • Identify the basic process for laying out a wireless LAN, the types of design tools that are available, and the overall design philosophy.
  • Describe the development of WLAN equipment from the original stand-alone access points to the current crop of wireless LAN switches.
  • Introduce the idea of voice over WLANs, station equipment options, the QoS capabilities introduced with 802.11e, Wi-Fi Multimedia, and the overall impact on network capacity.
  • Describe the products that can be used to integrate WLAN and cellular networks.
  • Review the major security concerns introduced by wireless LANs, the shortcomings of the original WEP technique, the VPN/VLAN security approach, and the improvements brought about with WPA, the 802.11i and 802.1x protocols.
  • Overview the range of 2.5G and 3G wide area wireless services, the capacities they provide, and how they might be integrated with the wireless LAN.
  • Understand WiMax or IEEE 802.16 technology for broadband wireless access networks, the types of applications it will serve, and how it compares to wireless LANs and Wi-Fi Mesh Networks.
  • Review developing products and technologies in the wireless arena including Ultra-Wideband, software defined radio, RFID, and the new antenna technologies like MIMO.

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