DESGN course will enable learners to gather customers internetworking requirements, identify solutions, and design the network infrastructure and elements to ensure the basic functionality of the proposed solutions. The purpose of this course is to provide the learners with the knowledge and skills to achieve associate level competency in network design. This course is the first design course in a design curriculum supporting the design certification track. It focuses on the technology and methods available today.

• Describe the principles of network design and present the guidelines for building a network design solution
• Describe how the Enterprise Composite Network model simplifies the complexity of today's networks
• Design the Enterprise Campus in a hierarchical modular fashion
• Design the Enterprise WAN network
• Design a network addressing plan
• Select optimal routing protocols for the network
• Evaluate security solutions for the network
• Access the design implications of voice transport across the network

For those who have a good knowledge of networks and device configuration who wish to learn more about network design principles from the Cisco point of view and are working on CCDA certification.

1. Applying Design Principles in Network Deployment
   ?? Identifying Organizational Network Policies and Procedures
   ?? Network Design Methodology
   ?? Examining Customer Requirements
   ?? Characterizing the Existing Network
   ?? Implementing the Design Methodology
   ?? DJMP Industries On-Going Case Study Introduction
   ?? Case Study: DJMP Industries Network Upgrade
   ?? Simulation: DJMP Industries New Applications (Using specially configured OPNET Simulation Software)
   ?? MCMB Corporation Network Redesign - Final Case Study Introduction
   
2. Structuring and Modularizing the Network
   ?? Designing the Network Hierarchy
   ?? Using a Modular Approach in Network Design
   ?? Evaluating Network Services and Solutions Within Modular Networks
   
3. Basic Campus Switching Design Considerations
   ?? Campus Design Methodology
   ?? Campus Design Models
   ?? Case Study: Campus Design
   ?? Simulation Using specially configured OPNET Simulation Software:
   ?? Shared versus Switched LAN
   ?? Layer 2 versus Layer 3 Switching
   
4. Designing WAN Networks
   ?? Enterprise Edge WAN Design Methodology
   ?? Selecting Wide Area Network Technology
   ?? Case Study: WAN Upgrade and Backup
   
5. Designing IP Addressing in the Network
   ?? Designing IP Addressing
   ?? Introduction to IPv6
   ?? Case Study: Network Addressing Plan
   
6. Selecting Routing Protocols or a Network
   ?? Evaluating Routing Protocol Selection Criteria for a Network
   ?? Assessing Routing Protocol Features
   ?? Designing a Routing Protocol Deployment
   ?? Case Study: Routing Protocol Selection
   ?? Simulation Using specially configured OPNET Simulation Software:
   ?? Routing Protocol Convergence
   
7. Evaluating Security Solutions for the Network
   ?? Identifying Attacks and Selecting Countermeasures
   ?? Identifying Security Mechanisms for a Defined Security Policy
   ?? Selecting Security Solutions Within Network Modules
   
8. Designing Networks for Voice Transport
   ?? Traditional Voice Architectures and Features
   ?? Integrating Voice Architectures
   ?? Identify the Requirements of Voice Technologies
   ?? Planning Capacity Using Voice Traffic gbineering Concepts
   ?? Simulation Using specially configured OPNET Simulation Software:
   ?? Voice Transport Across WAN Network
   
9. Case Study