Proposed Workshop Agenda

Dates: January 26-28, 2011 (Wednesday-Friday)
Instructor Team

• José Domínguez, UO Network and Telecomm Services
• Jeff Hite, UO Network and Telecomm Services
• Dale Smith, UO Network and Telecomm Services

General Time Schedule

Schedule
Session I	0830-1030
Break	1030-1100
Session II	1100-1300
Lunch	1300-1400
Session III	1400-1600
Break	1600-1630
Session IV	1630-1800

Wednesday

1400-1430: Welcome and Introduction

1430-1600: Campus Network Design and Best Practices (Dale Smith)

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• Build star networks
• Separate core and edge functions
• Route in core and switch at the edge
• Develop and use standard building blocks
• Have a strategy that allows incremental growth

1600-1630: Coffee/Tea Break

1630-1800: Physical Cabling Infrastructure Design (Dale Smith) Download PPT PDF

• Cable types
• Copper cabling systems
• Fiber Optic cabling systems

Thursday

0830-0930: Fiber Optic Construction Practical Advice

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0930-1030: Fiber Optic hands on termination lab (Jeff Hite)

1030-1100: Coffee/Tea Break

1100-1300: Fiber Optic hands on termination lab (Jeff Hite)

1300-1400: Lunch

1400-1600: Fiber Optic hands on termination lab (Jeff Hite)

1600-1630: Coffee/Tea Break

1630-1800: Fiber Optic hands on termination lab (Jeff Hite)

Friday

0830-0900: Case Studies/Engineering Roundtable

0900-1030: In-building Network Design (Layer 2 Switched Networks) (José Domínguez)

Download [raw-attchment:02_Layer2_Network_Design.ppt PPT] PDF

Best practices in Layer 2 Campus Network Design

• Switch versus Hub versus Router
• Switching Architectures (star topologies - aggregation switch serves edge switch)
• Virtual LANs (VLANs)
  • Increases complexity
  • Not necessarily a security mechanism. Don't confuse VLANs with host or data base security
  • Don't build VLAN spaghetti
  • Examples of where we recommend VLANs
  • Technology and practical hints
    • Tagging and untagged
    • Trunking
      • Q in Q

1030-1100: Coffee/Tea Break

1100- 1300 Layer 2 Best Practices continued

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
  • 802.d
  • 802.1w
  • 802.1s
• Selecting appropriate switches
  • class="lroman"> Must be managed
  • SNMP, SSH, access control techniques
• Fault Tolerance
  • Port bundling
  • Spanning tree (using loops to your advantage)
• Network Management
• Switching and security considerations
  • Rogue DHCP server prevention
    • How does it work
    • Uplink/downlink configuration
  • Dynamic ARP inspection
  • 802.1x/network access control

1300-1400: Lunch

1400-1600: Layer 2 Afternoon Lab

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• 4-6 groups with 5 or 6 switches per group
• Build layer 2 network consisting of aggregation switch and edge switches
• Configure spanning tree across fabric
  • What kind of spanning tree to configure?
  • How to make different types inter-operate

1600-1630: Coffee/Tea Break

1630-1800: Layer 2 Afternoon Lab continued

• Configure Rogue DHCP prevention
• Add 2nd aggregation switch to provide redundancy
  • Why did that happen?
• Growing your network
  • Use aggregation
  • If you can't...
• VLANs
  • Introducing and distributing VLANs