Global Knowledge Courses at NEARMUG 2009
We're pleased to partner wtih Global Knowledge and bring to you two courses. These courses normally retail for $299 and $599 as online courses. At NEARMUG 2009, we've turned these online courses into Instructor-led courses, and have provided them at a deep discount.
Full conference attendees can add these courses for only $75 per course. Those attending just the courses (and not the full conference) can purchase the courses ofr $175 each. But, why take just the course when you can attend the full conference for just a few pennies more and get all the workshops, our Keynote Speakers, and Trade Show??? Space will be limited, so make sure to register for these courses soon!
To register for the conference and these courses, go to our Online Registration site
Here's a description of the Courses----
Introduction to Session Initiation Protocol (Course 6340)
More and more vendors are offering products that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as their signaling protocol. This course gives you a solid grounding in the purposes of SIP the architecture of SIP and how
SIP functions so that you are prepared to understand the behavior of the various SIP devices in your network regardless of vendor. The course is divided into modules each with multiple lessons:
An overview of SIP including the problems SIP is designed to solve
- Basic examples of SIP use to provide a context for your learning throughout the rest of the course
- SIP Architecture including User Agents Present Agents Gateways and Servers
- SIP Methods: how SIP carries out its tasks
- SIP Responses: how endpoints communicate
- SIP Header Fields: what a captured SIP packet looks like
- SIP Uniform Resource Indicators and their use
- Security in a SIP network including reliability authentication firewalls NAT and Firewall and NAT traversal
- Detailed call flow examples
- SIP interactions with other protocols including SIMPLE and 3GPP
Ethernet Switching and Resiliency (Course #6701)
This is course provides a basis for understanding Ethernet switched networks. It is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of various aspects of Ethernet. Regardless of your current level of knowledge you will gain a solid understanding of the operational and theoretical components of an Ethernet Switched network and the standards that make them work.
After completing the course the student will be able to:
- Describe how Ethernet switches operate within the Ethernet network including learning forwarding flooding and dropping network frames.
- Describe the Broadcast Multicast and Unicast frame types and their operation.
- Describe a network switches forwarding data base.
- Describe VLANs and how network traffic is controlled using them
- Describe how VLAN tagging operates and extends broadcast domains throughout a switched network
- Describe how flow control is used within a switched network
- Explain how loops occur in the network topology within broadcast domains and how they are prevented using protocols
- Describe the network implementation of Multiple Spanning Tree groups
- Describe the advantages of Link Aggregation and its implementation