2196 Courses in Cardiff
MOBILE IP TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A detailed examination of the protocols and architecture of Mobile IP. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the benefits of ADSL. * Configure and troubleshoot IS-IS. * Explain how IS-IS works. * Describe the use of Level 1 and Level 2. * Design IS-IS networks. MOBILE IP COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff wanting to learn DNS.Network Administrators. Support personnel. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation * Duration 2 days MOBILE IP COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Quick review of IP, What is Mobile IP? What Mobile IP provides, Mobility requirements, Where Mobile IP is required, where mobile IP is not required, DHCP as an alternative, Proxy ARP as an alternative. * Architecture Mobile node, home network, home agent, Foreign agent, Fixed home address, Care of address, Correspondent node, Tunnelling. * How Mobile IP works Using two addresses, issues with TCP, discovering the care of address, registering care of address, tunnelling the care of address. The protocols involved. * Issues with Mobile IP Routing inefficiencies, Security and firewalls, ingress filtering, QoS. * MIP and IPv6 Stateless address configuration, Neighbour discovery, miscellaneous.
ZEROCONF AND BONJOUR TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on training course focusing on Microsoft and Apple implementations of Zeroconf. The course covers all three main areas: Interface configuration, name resolution and service discovery. Hands on with Apple Bonjour and Microsoft UPnP compliment all the major theory sessions. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how mDNS and LLMNR work. * Explain how DNS-SD and SSDP work. * Recognise the role of service discovery gateways. ZEROCONF AND BONJOUR TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Zeroconf. Developers using Zeroconf. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation for engineers * Duration 2 day ZEROCONF AND BONJOUR TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is Zeroconf? Zeroconf, architecture, Microsoft UPnP, Apple, Bonjour, devices, components. Home networks, enterprise networks, BYOD. * Plug and play without Zeroconf DHCP, DNS, A, PTR, SRV records, DDNS. Hands on DHCP configuration. * Address selection IPv4 link local addresses, IPv6 link local addresses. Hands: Addresses without DHCP. * Name resolution mDNS, finding names, announcing names, .local DNS namespace, LLMNR. Hands on Names without DNS. * Role of multicasting Multicast addresses, multicasts and switches, multicasts and routers. Hands on Multicasts, TTL. * Service discovery DNS-SD, SRV and TXT lookups, SSDP, HTTP. Hands on Browsing for services * Zeroconf in a routed environment Service Discovery gateways, configuration, service filters, DNS-LLQ, NAT-PMP. * Miscellaneous Security, automatic multicast addresses, wireless auto configuration.
SNMPC TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course providing a solid foundation on network management using SolarWinds. The course specifically focusses on SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor. The course starts with configuring agents and device discovery, onto exploiting SNMP with SolarWinds and then Alerts, reports and customisation of menus, views and maps. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Discover devices using Solarwinds. * Use Solarwinds. * Poll and monitor devices using Solarwinds. * Create Alarms and reports. * Diagnose faults using Solarwinds. SNMPC TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Solarwinds. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days SNMPC TRAINING COURSE CONTENT * Getting started with SNMPc Manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, mapping network devices. Hands on Using SNMPc. * Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs. Hands on Device discovery. Adding devices. Customising maps. * Using SNMPc Polling, obtaining MIB information, MIB walking. Compiling MIBs. Hands on Monitoring devices. Groups. MIB walking. SNMP traps. * Alarms Events and alarms, thresholds, event actions. Hands on Automatic alarms. * Reports Creating reports, trend reports, customising reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. * Administration Users, customised views, backups, the database. Hands on Adding a user. Backups.
ADSL TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION An introduction to ATM. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the benefits of ADSL. * Describe what ADSL is. * Describe how ADSL works. * Describe the ADSL architecture * Recognise the limitations of ADSL. * List the elements required for an ADSL installation. ADSL TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Network engineers and anyone who will be working with ADSL. * Prerequisites: Intro to data comms & networking * Duration 2 days ADSL TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is ADSL? Broadband definitions, OSI layer 1, ADSL services, WANS. ADSL features: always on, point to point, Asymmetric, speeds. ADSL benefits, xDSL family, standards, history, example DSL forum documents. * ADSL architecture The big picture, The PSTN and telephones, Digital and analogue, PSTN and modems, ADSL vs. modem speeds, Block 1: Customer premises, Block 2: The last mile, Block 3: The exchange, Block 4: the core network. * Customer premises Splitters, micro filters, splitter architectures, Splitterless ADSL, ADSL modems, USB, ADSL routers. * The local loop ADSL PHY, Some basics, ADSL margins, speed implications, distances, RADSL, Line testing, whoosh tests, line coding, multiple channels, FDM, echo cancellation, Modulation: AM, FM, PM, QAM, QAM constellations, DMT, CAP, Framing, Superframes, fast data mode, interleaved mode, RADSL revisited. * The local loop ADSL PHY, Some basics, ADSL margins, speed implications, distances, RADSL, Line testing, whoosh tests, line coding, multiple channels, FDM, echo cancellation, Modulation: AM, FM, PM, QAM, QAM constellations, DMT, CAP, Framing, Superframes, fast data mode, interleaved mode, RADSL revisited. * The exchange Local exchange ADSL items, DSLAMs, ADSL racks, Contention. * The core network The role of the core network, ATM, ATM VPI/VCI, ATM cells, ATM layers, AAL5, RAS, Home gateways. * ADSL and the higher layers Layer 2 choices, PPPoA, PPP, CHAP, layer 4 and above, ADSL and IP, ADSL and ATM. * Installing and configuring ADSL Choosing providers, line activation, hardware requirements, Configuring layer 1 and layer 2, Configuring IP. * Summary ITU ADSL standards.
STP ALTERNATIVES TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) dates from 1985. This course explores the technologies that can be used as an alternative to STP, including FabricPath, SPB and TRILL. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how STP and RSTP work. * Explain how TRILL works. * Explain how SPB works. * Explain how FabricPath works. STP ALTERNATIVES TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical network staff. * Prerequisites: Definitive Ethernet switching for engineers * Duration 1 day STP ALTERNATIVES TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Layer 2 versus Layer 3, STP problems: One path, convergence, MAC explosion, STP alternatives. * STP 802.1D, how STP works, root bridge, convergence times, single path. * RSTP 802.1w, Improvements, convergence times. * Link aggregation 802.3ad, Multi system Link aggregation. * IS-IS Concepts, Discovery, topology exchange, flooding. Changes for TRILL, FabricPath and SPB. * FabricPath Overview, architecture, control plane protocols, DRAP, STP interactions, packet forwarding, configuration. * TRILL Concepts, RBridge, TRILL frames, control plane, data plane, learning MAC addresses. * SPB 802.1aq, Node ID, Backbone Edge Bridges, Backbone MAC address, customer MACs, I-SID, forwarding database.
MPEG TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course studies the MPEG standards for video and audio compression. A major focus is on MPEG-4 and MPEG-TS. Hands on includes decoding and analysing MPEG streams. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the main MPEG standards. * Describe the techniques used in MPEG video and audio compression. * Compare MPEG2m MPEG4 and MPEG-H. * Describe the MPEG-TS. * Analyse MPEG streams. MPEG TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with MPEG. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days MPEG TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction What is MPEG? MPEG and VCEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG-3, MPEG-4, MPEG-H, others, codecs and containers, licensing and patents, parts and layers (System, Video, Audio, others). * MPEG2 DVD, DVB, characteristics, MPEG2 Part2, audio MPEG2 Part 7 (AAC). * MPEG tools Wireshark, vlc, analysers, decoders, ffmpeg, wowzer. * MPEG2 Video compression Sampling, bit rates, resolution. Inter and Intra frame coding, I, B, P frames, GOP, slices, blocks, macroblocks. Motion estimation. Hands on Analysing MPEG frames. * MPEG4 Profiles and levels, Enhancements, Parts 1,2,3, Part 10 and AVC, Part 14 and mp4. Performance versus MPEG2. * MPEG audio Coding, frequencies, bit rates. * MPEG-TS PES, Transport Streams, TS elements, packets, PID, Programs, PSI, PAT, PMT, synchronisation, PCR, PTS. * MPEG-H Part 2 HEVC, benefits, improvements. * Video codecs What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing.
RFID TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This training course focuses on the technologies used in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the RFID architecture. * Design RFID systems. * Evaluate tag types. * Recognise common RFID problems. RFID TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: RFID technologists and system engineers. * Prerequisites: RF fundamentals. * Duration 2 days RFID TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is RFID? Review of RF basics, what is RFID, RFID history, RFID base system architecture, frequency bands used by RFID, comparison with barcodes. * RFID applications Supply chain, asset tracking, theft reduction, retail, access control, tolls. * Tags Tag features, types of tag, passive and active, chips, read only, read write, affixing tags, selecting location to affix a tag, tag orientation and location, tag stacking, impact of rate of movement, tag data formats. * Interrogators/readers Interrogation zones, interrogator types, antennas, read distance tests, multiple interrogators, synchronisation, dense interrogator environment issues. RFID peripherals. * Standards and regulations Global regulatory requirements, regional regulatory requirements, ISO, ETSI, FCC, EPC, safety regulations/issues. * Testing and troubleshooting Read rate problems, improperly tagged items, tag failure. * RFID system design Antenna types, interference, antenna location and spacing, how many antennas? How many interrogators? tag types, grounding considerations, cabling, site diagrams.
4G TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to give the delegate an understanding of the technologies used within a 3G UMTS mobile network. During the course we will investigate the UMTS air interface and the use of Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) to facilitate high speed data access, together with HSPA to offer mobile broadband services. We will describe the use of soft handover rather than hard handover procedures and soft capacity sharing. The course includes a brief exploration of the UMTS protocol stack and the use of PDP Context and QoS support features. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the 3G UMTS architecture. * Describe the role of a Drifting & Serving RNC. * Explain the use of ARQ & HARQ for mobile broadband. * Describe how IMS integrates into the architecture. * Describe the use of Media Gateway Controllers. * Identify the temporary identities used within 3G UMTS. 4G TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working within the telecommunications area, especially within the mobile environment. * Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified Telecommunications Introduction * Duration 2 days 4G TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * LTE Introduction The path to LTE, 3GPP. LTE to LTE advanced. * LTE Architecture The core, Access, roaming. Protocols: User plane, Control plane. Example information flows. Bearer management. Spectrum allocation. * LTE technologies Transmission, reception, OFDMA, multiple antenna, MIMO. * LTE Air interface Air interface protocol stack. Channels, Resource Grid, cell acquisition. Up and downlink controls. Layer 2 protocols. * Cell acquisition Power on, selecting networks and cells. RRC connection. Attach procedure. * Mobility management Roaming, RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED, cell reselection, handover, interoperation with UMTS and GSM networks. * Voice and text IMS, QoS, policy and charging.
OPENSSL FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course covering OpenSSL. The course focusses on the use of OpenSSL from the command line as opposed to using its extensive libraries. Certificate authorities are configured along with key generation, HTTPS and a SSL VPN. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe OpenSSL. * Use OpenSSL. * Describe and implement: * Explain how the various technologies involved in an OpenSSL work. OPENSSL FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Network personnel. * Prerequisites: IP security foundation for engineers * Duration 2 days OPENSSL FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is OpenSSL? What is SSL? SSL versions, TLS, TLS negotiation, TLS authentication, What is OpenSSL, Command line tool, SSL library. OpenSSH, OpenVPN. Hands on TLS packet analysis. * Getting started with OpenSSL Downloading, source code, packages, installing, versions, configuration, openssl command. Cipher suite selection. Hands on Encrypting a file with openssl. * Public and private keys Algorithms, creating keys, public keys, private keys, encrypting the private key. Hands on Encrypting a file with keys. * Digital signatures Creating signatures, checking validity of signatures, Self signing SSL certificates. Viewing certificates. Certificate files. Converting between formats. Hands on Securing a web server with HTTPS. * Simple PKI with OpenSSL Root CA, signing CA, configuration files, Certificate signing requests. Email certificates, TLS server certificates. Hands on Implementing a simple PKI with OpenSSL.
ISDN TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A comprehensive look at ISDN, as used in voice and data environments. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the issues and impacts of using dial up networks. * Describe ISDN. * Describe ISDN signalling in voice and data environments. * Configure a Cisco router to use ISDN. ISDN TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with ISDN. * Prerequisites: Intro to data communications & networking * Duration 2 days ISDN TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Dialup connectivity vs. leased lines vs. packet switched networks. ISDN offerings, services, benefits vs. modems. * ISDN architectures Use of ISDN by routers, Dial up, top up, backup. Internet access, PCs and ISDN. * BRI and PRI ISDN switches, B channels, D channel, ISDN functions and reference points, NT1, NT2, TE1, TE2, Terminal adapters, R,S,T,U interfaces, ISDN standards. * PPP Encapsulation, PPP services, PAP and CHAP, Multilink PPP, BACP. * ISDN and the seven layer model B channel layers versus D channel layers, the I standards, Q.921, Q.931. * Configuration issues for ISDN E.164 addressing and IP addresses, ensuring only the correct traffic brings up the ISDN line. * ISDN services Bearer services, teleservices, supplementary services, MSN, sub addressing, CLIâ¦