This course is is available in multiple formats. You can purchase a self-paced on-demand e-learning version of this course or your can purchase a seat in an instructor-led training and includes instructor assisted, hands-on labs. The instructor-led training can either be in a classroom setting or via a virtual classroom via the web.
The Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Networking Essentials training class is designed to help you prepare for the CCNA Wireless certification, an associate level certification in the wireless field. The goal of the IUWNE is to provide you with information to prepare you to help design, install, configure, monitor and conduct basic troubleshooting tasks of a Cisco WLAN in small and medium-sized business and enterprise installations. The IUWNE training class reinforces the instruction by providing you with hands-on labs that range from creating an ad-hoc network and analyzing the communication, configuring a controller, configure and migrate standalone access points (APs), install and configure a Mobility Express Wireless Controller and AP, experiment with connections and roaming, configure Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST) authentication with Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), configure the controller and the AP from the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) interface, add a map to the WCS, enhance it with the Map editor tool and locate the AP on the map, backup the controller configuration, as well as troubleshooting issues introduced by the instructor.
Both the Classroom ILT and Virtual ILT versions of this course come with access to our state of the art remoted labs that utilize actual Cisco equipment. For the Classroom ILT version of this course, 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.