Course Overview
In this course, you will review the fundamental principles of campus network design and explore a variety of customer scenarios to learn how to follow a structured approach for designing solutions that meet specific business and technical requirements. You will define customer objectives, identify key design considerations, and apply best practices throughout the solution development process. The course also includes a series of hands-on activities focused on designing, building, and validating network solutions, as well as creating a bill of materials (BoM) and preparing a professional solution proposal. In addition, you will practice presenting your proposed solution to a customer. Approximately 80% of the course is dedicated to practical lab exercises, providing extensive hands-on experience.
Course Content
Update an Existing Network
- Interpret customer requirements for the network update
- Determine the technical requirements for interoperability with the existing environment
- Design the network to meet those requirements
- Create a bill of materials that meets or exceeds the customer requirements
Design a Very High-Density Network
- Interpret customer requirements for the venue
- Determine the technical requirements for the environment
- Design the network to meet those requirements
- Create a bill of materials that meets or exceeds the customer requirements
Who should attend
The ideal candidate for this course is a highly experienced, senior technical professional. Suitable candidates typically include roles such as principal engineer, network consultant, presales consultant, solutions architect, networking subject matter expert (SME), network security architect, or a technical member from architecture teams.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
It is strongly recommended that the candidate already:
- Holds the HPE Aruba Networking Professional - Switching certification or the HPE Aruba Networking certified Professional - Campus Access certification
- Or has taken on of the following courses: ! or Implementing Campus Access (IACA)
- Or has advanced experience deploying HPE Aruba Networking solutions in an enterprise environment.
Course Objectives
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
- Discover requirements
- Identify the business and technical stakeholders and business requirements
- Identify, collect, analyze, and document the current environment
- Define the technical requirements
- Document assumptions
- Build a High-Level Design
- Identify technologies to satisfy requirements
- Create a functional diagram or workflow
- Create campus topology and preliminary BoM
- Document the design
- Write Technical Proposal Document
- Finalize BOM
- Write Solution Overview and Executive Brief
- Document Implementation and Migration Guidelines
Outline: Designing Advanced HPE Networking Campus Access Architect Solutions (DANCAAS)
Update an Existing Network
- Interpret customer requirements for the network update
- Determine the technical requirements for interoperability with the existing environment
- Design the network to meet those requirements
- Create a bill of materials that meets or exceeds the customer requirements
Design a Very High-Density Network
- Interpret customer requirements for the venue
- Determine the technical requirements for the environment
- Design the network to meet those requirements
- Create a bill of materials that meets or exceeds the customer requirements