Cisco Next Level

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that students are expected to have before attending this course are:

• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)®

Course Objectives

• Define what IIoT is and identify IIoT architectures.
• Identify IIoT market verticals, and their motivations and requirements.
• Explore Cisco IIoT networking devices, how they are different from other devices, and use common administrative tools for managing them.
• Explore industrial communications protocols for control and automation, and how they have been adapted to run on top of a TCP/IP network infrastructure.
• Describe wireless protocols used in IIoT environments, including architectures and devices used.
• Understand the TCP/IP protocol stack and how it is used with other protocols in IIoT environments.
• Discuss network protocols for clock synchronization between network devices, and describe available tools for IIoT network administration.
• Discuss wireless technologies used in a core LAN, and their relevance to IIoT implementations.
• Explore field WAN technologies and how they are used in IIoT environments.
• Explore legacy protocols and explain the methods available to transport non-routable protocols over modern networks.
• Explain fundamental concepts of Quality of Service (QoS) related to IIoT network environments.
• Discuss Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) operation, components, terminology, and features, and explore its use in IIoT environments.
• Explore Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN technologies and describe the way they can be used on IIoT deployments.
• Describe Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology and its use in IIoT environments.
• Explore Layer 1 and Layer 2 high availability technologies and redundancy mechanisms.
• Describe Layer 3 high availability and the need for Layer 3 redundancy in IIoT deployments.

Outline

• Course Introduction.
• Defining Industrial Internet of Things.
• Examining Common IIoT Verticals.
• Examining Cisco IIoT Networking Devices.
• Examining and Configuring Industrial Communication Protocols.
• Describing Wireless IIoT Protocols.
• Explaining and Configuring TCP/IP Protocols, Addressing, and Segmentation.
• Examining Network Services and Administration.
• Examining and Configuring Wireless Core LAN Technologies.
• Describing Field WAN Technologies.
• Examining and Configuring Transportation of Legacy Protocols.
• Describing, Configuring, and Verifying Quality of Service (QoS) for IIoT Protocols.
• Examining and Verifying MPLS and IIoT.
• Configuring and Explaining VPN Technology and IIoT.
• Describing DWDM.
• Configuring and Defining Layer 1 and Layer 2 High Availability Technologies.
• Defining and Configuring Layer 3 High Availability Technologies.

Lab outline

• Connect to the Cisco IIoT Devices.
• Use Industrial Protocols with Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switches.
• Configure an 802.11 Client.
• Configure an IPv6 Address.
• Configure Layer 2 Network Address Translation (NAT) and IP Addressing in an Example IoT Deployment.
• Configure and Verify Mapping of Address and Port Using Translation (MAP-T).
• Implement VLANs.
• Configure IP Addressing, Layer 2 NAT, and Virtual LANs (VLANs).
• Use Network Administration Applications.
• Configure Access Point and Wireless Network Using Wireless LAN Controller (WLC).
• Configure Wireless Networking.
• Configure a WAN Interface on IR829B.
• Configure an Long- Term Evolution LTE Connection.
• Configure Raw Socket TCP Tunnel.
• Configure Distributed Network Protocol 3 (DNP3) to DNP3/IP Translation.
• Configure and Verify QoS for IIoT Networks.
• Configure and Verify MPLS for IIoT.
• Configure and Verify Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) VPNs.
• Configure and Verify Layer Two Tunneling Protocol v3 (L2TPv3) VPNs.
• Configure and Explain VPN Technology and IIoT.
• Configure Dynamic Multipoint VPNs (DMVPNs).
• Configure FlexVPN.
• Verify Connectivity for IIoT Devices over MPLS VPN Backbone.
• Configure Layer 2 Redundancy.
• Configure Layer 3 Redundancy.