This course is instructor-led training and includes instructor assisted, hands-on labs. Learn to design, install, and support wireless networks and perform site surveys. In this four-day course, you will examine the fundamentals of WLAN technology, and providing the foundation for designing and installing a Cisco Wireless Network. Through detailed lecture and hands-on labs, you will receive and introduction to WLAN applications in specific markets and topologies while considering design concerns, essential equipment, configuration, network management, security and site survey techniques. While you will be introduced to the lightweight access points, controllers and the advanced feature of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network, the labs focus on the Cisco standalone architecture and core feature set.
Laptops are provided to participate in the hands-on labs. If you desire to use your own laptop, please bring a laptop computer with an available 32-bit CardBus slot and an Ethernet port as well as an internal wireless NIC, 802.11a/b/g. The laptop’s operating systems must be either MS Windows 2000 (SP4) or XP. The laptop should also have a 9-pin serial port or USB to serial adapter. IN ADDITION, you will need administrator rights to the laptop to install drivers for the wireless client used in class. .
