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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Overview of Open-Source Enterprise Networking
- Reasons organizations adopt a self-managed network approach
- Popular open-source alternatives for routing, Wi-Fi, IP address management, monitoring, and automation
- Advantages, trade-offs, hardware compatibility, and operational factors
Network Requirements and Architecture Design
- Collecting business and technical requirements
- Designing for campus, branch, and small multi-site environments
- Planning for segmentation, resilience, and future scalability
Platform and Component Selection
- Selecting platforms for routers, switches, wireless access points, and management tools
- Aligning open-source software with specific network roles
- Evaluating hardware compatibility and deployment models
Addressing, VLANs, and Core Network Services
- IP address planning and subnet design
- VLAN architecture and fundamentals of inter-VLAN communication
- Considerations for DHCP, DNS, NTP, and management networks
Routing Design and Implementation
- Designing static routing and default gateways
- Practical application of OSPF and basic BGP for edge connectivity
- Concepts of redundancy, route filtering, and failover
Switching Design and Implementation
- Roles of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching in enterprise networks
- Uplink design, VLAN implementation, and trunking
- Basics of loop prevention and link resilience
Enterprise Wi-Fi Planning and Deployment
- Planning for coverage, capacity, and SSIDs
- Designing networks for employees, guests, and devices
- Access point deployment, controller options, and wireless security fundamentals
Security and Access Control
- Network segmentation, firewalling, and policy enforcement
- Securing management access and administrative workflows
- Patch management, backups, logging, and configuration protection
Documentation and Single Source of Truth
- Utilizing inventory and IP address management tools like NetBox
- Documenting topology, addressing schemes, and service dependencies
- Change control and configuration standards
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Creating visibility through metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards
- Monitoring device health, interfaces, wireless performance, and client connections
- Resolving common issues in routing, switching, Wi-Fi, and services
Automation and Repeatable Operations
- Identifying areas where automation delivers the most value
- Using templates and scripts for consistent configuration
- Supporting change management through repeatable workflows
Deployment, Migration, and Operations Planning
- Validating designs in a lab and planning pilot rollouts
- Migrating from existing environments with rollback and risk mitigation
- Developing runbooks, support processes, and a production adoption roadmap
Requirements
- Familiarity with fundamental IP networking, switching, VLANs, and Wi-Fi concepts.
- Practical experience in network administration, Linux system administration, or IT infrastructure support.
- Proficiency with basic command-line operations and configuration file editing.
Target Audience
- Network engineers and administrators.
- Infrastructure and systems engineers.
- IT managers and technical leads assessing or planning the implementation of an open-source network stack.
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