Aruba Design

Course description

This course teaches you how to plan and design enterprise Aruba campus wireless and wired networks. Hands-on labs give you experience with network design from information gathering to planning and high-level design including RF Planning, Redundant Campus Architecture design, and Remote Access Branch office design. This course teaches Aruba Mobility Network Design for Aruba Secure wireless and wired network deployments using Aruba Best Practices on how to plan and design enterprise campus networks including designing for redundancy and high availability. This course is approximately 40% lecture and 60% hands-on lab exercises.

Ideal candidate for this course

Typical candidates for this course are IT Professionals and Network Architects who will design and plan networks based on Aruba wired and wireless products and solutions.

Suggested prerequisites

The recommended prerequisites are the Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA) and the Aruba Certified Mobility Associate (ACMA) certifications.

Topics

Determine Customer Requirements
Determine key Stakeholders expectations and requirements
Determine network usage and requirements
Identify applications to determine throughput and bandwidth, technologies, and products
Determine security requirements and Authentication and Compliance
Determine redundancy requirements
Determine roaming requirements

RF Planning
RF fundamentals
RF Planning and Site Survey
Determine the environment type
Document wireless RF coverage
Plan AP physical location
Selecting APs and antennas
Channel planning and Airmatch

Aruba Campus Design
Campus Topology
Aruba Campus WLAN logical architecture
Overview of Mobility Manager-based architecture
Planning the deployment architecture
Controller Scaling
Planning and selecting licenses
Using IRIS

Wired Network Design
Selecting 2-tier or 3-tier architecture
VSP and backplane stacking
L2 vs. L3 design
Planning the access layer
Planning the aggregation/core layers

Network Security
Clearpass features
Clearpass Server Design
Wireless Access Control
Wired access Control
IDS/IPS

VLANs
Planning VLANs based on access control requirements
Planning Wired VLAN in a Multiple VLAN design
Planning for a wireless large flat VLAN design

Redundancy
Designing types of redundancy: Mobility Master redundancy, mobility controller redundancy, AP redundancy, switch redundancy, and link-level redundancy
Mobility Master redundancy
Mobility Controller redundancy
Wired Network Redundancy

Planning Quality of Service
Determine what traffic needs to be prioritized - Overview of real-time applications such as voice and video
Explain the features the Aruba solutions provide for prioritizing traffic
Map traffic from wireless user device to AP, to controller, and then onto the wired network

Very High Density (VHD) Design
VHD Wireless network design
Planning VHD design for a Wired network
Planning High Density RF Coverage

Branch and SMB Topologies
Designing Remote Access and Branch solutions
Remote Access Points
Activation using Aruba Activate
Aruba Instant APs (IAPs)
Wired solutions for the branch

Network Management
Network Management introduction Airwave
Central
Netedit
Licenses

New Design
Start a new network design
Apply all that has been taught in this course

Objectives

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to
Plan and design enterprise Aruba campus wireless and wired networks.
Evaluate the requirements, and select the wired networking technologies for the design.
Evaluate the requirements, and select the wireless networking technologies for the design.
Plan and design an Aruba solution per the customer requirements.
Produce a detailed design specification document.
Recommend the solution to the customer.