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Course Outline
Overview of Open-Source Enterprise Networking
- Reasons organizations opt for a self-managed network approach.
- Leading open-source solutions for routing, Wi-Fi, IP address management, monitoring, and automation.
- Advantages, trade-offs, hardware compatibility, and operational implications.
Network Requirements and Architecture Design
- Collecting business and technical requirements.
- Designing for campus, branch, and small multi-site environments.
- Planning for network segmentation, resiliency, and future scalability.
Platform and Component Selection
- Selecting platforms for routers, switches, wireless access points, and management utilities.
- Mapping open-source software to specific network roles.
- Evaluating hardware compatibility and deployment models.
Addressing, VLANs, and Core Network Services
- IP address planning and subnet design.
- VLAN design fundamentals and inter-VLAN communication.
- Considerations for DHCP, DNS, NTP, and management networks.
Routing Design and Implementation
- Static routing and default gateway design.
- 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.
- Fundamentals of loop prevention and link resiliency.
Enterprise Wi-Fi Planning and Deployment
- Planning for coverage, capacity, and SSIDs.
- Designing networks for employees, guests, and IoT devices.
- Access point adoption, 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 Source of Truth
- Utilizing inventory and IP address management tools such as NetBox.
- Documenting topology, addressing, and service dependencies.
- Establishing change control and configuration standards.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Creating visibility through metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
- Monitoring device health, interfaces, wireless performance, and client connectivity.
- Troubleshooting common routing, switching, Wi-Fi, and service issues.
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 a pilot rollout.
- Migrating from existing environments with rollback and risk controls.
- Developing runbooks, support processes, and a roadmap for production adoption.
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of IP networking, switching, VLANs, and Wi-Fi principles.
- Professional experience in network administration, Linux system administration, or IT infrastructure support.
- Proficiency with basic command-line interfaces and experience editing configuration files.
Target Audience
- Network engineers and administrators.
- Infrastructure and systems engineers.
- IT managers and technical leads assessing or planning an open-source network stack.
21 Hours
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