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CWMN - Cisco Wireless Mesh Networking v3.0

Length Price Cisco Learning Credits
3 days $2,395.00 24

This course is instructor-led training and includes instructor assisted, hands-on labs. The Cisco Wireless Mesh Networking training class will teach you all about designing, installing, and deploying Cisco's Aironet 1500 Series Lightweight Outdoor Mesh Access Point. This course gives you the technology overview and allows you to examine various mesh networks both as an add-on to an existing wireless LAN and as a new Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution, and work with the product performing configuration tasks in the hands-on labs.

Prerequisites

  • CWLF - Cisco Wireless LAN Fundamentals v2.0
  • CUWN - Cisco Unified Wireless Network v4.1 

What You'll Learn

  • Review basic controller configuration and wireless LAN configuration
  • Explore how to create a mesh network
  • Examine the requirements necessary for designing a wireless mesh network
  • Demonstrate how to install access points
  • Explore various verification and troubleshooting tools and commands

Who Needs to Attend

  • Cisco Wireless Specialized Partners with experience in outdoor RF environments, data networking, WLAN topologies, and RF technologies as well as individuals who are responsible for planning, implementing, or supporting customer wireless LAN networks.

Course Outline

1. Configuring a Wireless Controller

  • LAN Controller Overview: Configuration Basics
  • LAN Controller Security and Mobility

2. Cisco Aironet 1500 Series Mesh

  • Mesh Network Overview: Components, Protocols, and Functionality
  • Mesh Network Features and Applications
  • WCS Map and Mesh Enhancements
  • Administration and Maintenance

3. Wireless Mesh Requirements

  • RF Theory
  • Access Point Roles
  • 802.11h Standard
  • Selecting Antennas

4. Installing and Configuring Mesh Access Points

  • Installing Access Points
  • Access Point and Bridging Group Configurations
  • Configuring the Controller using the GUI to add the AP to the Mesh Network
  • Connectivity Verification

5. Verifying and Troubleshooting

  • Validating WLAN Configurations
  • CLI Support Tools
  • Identify Other Considerations for Troubleshooting
  • GUI Support Tools

Labs

Lab 1: Controller Configuration

  • Set Up Console Port Configuration
  • Controller Boot Options
  • Configure the Controller Using CLI Startup Wizard
  • Examine Controller Settings with Show Command
  • Use CLI to Reset Controller to Factory Defaults
  • Use Web-Based GUI Startup Wizard

Lab 2: Manage the Controller

  • Use Web-Based GUI to Connect to Controller
  • Use Web-Based GUI to Monitor the Controller
  • Set Open Authentication on the Default Wireless LAN
  • Back Up Configuration on the Controller

Lab 3: Deploy Mesh APs

  • Prepare for Mesh APs for Deployment
  • Connect 1242 Access Points, Starting In Local Mode and Upgrade to Bridge-Mode Capable Code
  • Bring Up Mesh Network
  • Enable Ethernet Bridging
  • Verify Channels and Transmit Power
  • Verify Association and Interconnection

Lab 4: WCS Mesh Support

  • Add Controller to WCS
  • Use WCS to Configure the Controller
  • Use WCS to Create a Campus
  • Add Mesh APs to Outdoor Area and Display Mesh Coverage
  • WCS Troubleshooting Capabilities
  • Defining a BGN Template
  • Monitoring Mesh Alarms

Lab 5: File Transfer via Bridged Link

  • Confirm Initial Configuration
  • Testing Bridging Restrictions
  • Turn on Ethernet Bridging and Transfer Files

Lab 6: Mesh Support Tools

  • Create Web Authentication
  • Checking Backhaul
  • Client Debugging
  • Backhaul Client Access

Lab 7: WCS Mesh Reports

  • Mesh Alternate Parents
  • Link Statistics
  • Mesh Node Hops
  • Packet Error Stats
  • Mesh Packet Stats
  • Worst Node Hops
  • Worst SNR Links

Class Dates:

On Site Class Available