Description
This 5-day course will help students prepare for the Aruba Certified Design Professional (ACDP) V1 exam.
Course Content
- Determine Customer Requirements
- RF Planning
- Aruba Campus Design
- Wired Network Design
- VLANs
- Redundancy
- Planning Quality of Service
- Very High Density (VHD) Design
- Branch and SMB Topologies
Who should attend
Typical candidates for this course are IT Professionals and Network Architects who will design and plan networks based on Aruba wired and wireless products and solutions.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
The recommended prerequisites are the Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA) and the Aruba Certified Mobility Associate (ACMA) certifications.
Course Objectives
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
- Plan and design enterprise Aruba campus wireless and wired networks.
- Evaluate the requirements, and select the wired networking technologies for the design.
- Evaluate the requirements, and select the wireless networking technologies for the design.
- Plan and design an Aruba solution per the customer requirements.
- Produce a detailed design specification document.
- Recommend the solution to the customer.
Follow On Courses
Outline: Designing Aruba Solutions (DAS)
Determine Customer Requirements
- Determine key Stakeholders expectations and requirements
- Determine network usage and requirements
- Identify applications to determine throughput and bandwidth, technologies, and products
- Determine security requirements and Authentication and Compliance
- Determine redundancy requirements
- Determine roaming requirements
RF Planning
- RF fundamentals
- RF Planning and Site Survey
- Determine the environment type
- Document wireless RF coverage
- Plan AP physical location
- Selecting APs and antennas
- Channel planning and Airmatch
Aruba Campus Design
- Campus Topology
- Aruba Campus WLAN logical architecture
- Overview of Mobility Manager-based architecture
- Planning the deployment architecture
- Controller Scaling
- Planning and selecting licenses
- Using IRIS
Wired Network Design
- Selecting 2-tier or 3-tier architecture
- VSP and backplane stacking
- L2 vs. L3 design
- Planning the access layer
- Planning the aggregation/core layers
VLANs
- Planning VLANs based on access control requirements
- Planning Wired VLAN in a Multiple VLAN design
- Planning for a wireless large flat VLAN design
Redundancy
- Designing types of redundancy: Mobility Master redundancy, mobility controller redundancy, AP redundancy, switch redundancy, and link-level redundancy
- Mobility Master redundancy
- Mobility Controller redundancy
- Wired Network Redundancy
Planning Quality of Service
- Determine what traffic needs to be prioritized – Overview of real-time applications such as voice and video
- Explain the features the Aruba solutions provide for prioritizing traffic
- Map traffic from wireless user device to AP, to controller, and then onto the wired network
Very High Density (VHD) Design
- VHD Wireless network design
- Planning VHD design for a Wired network
- Planning High Density RF Coverage
Branch and SMB Topologies
- Designing Remote Access and Branch solutions
- Remote Access Points
- Activation using Aruba Activate
- Aruba Instant APs (IAPs)
- Wired solutions for the branch
