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Our extensive industry and training expertise
is why we’re frequently asked to develop and present seminars
on technical topics.
After looking over some of our presentations
you'll start to see how one of our strengths is in our people, and
how our people offer unique consultative training capabilities.
Please contact us at info@netcraftsmen.net
to arrange for a Chesapeake NetCraftsmen speaker for your networking
user group or organization or click here to find our about our upcoming
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Current topic areas include:
Note: Check for upcoming seminars on our News
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| Is
Your Network Ready for IP Telephony? |
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Networks are evolving from binary mode ("can you ping
it?") to decimal mode ("what quality does the service
provide?"). If you intend to deploy IP Telephony soon,
there are some things you can be doing to reduce risk, by
preparing your network for IP Telephony. Even if you don’t
have current purchase plans, you can still improve your network's
performance and your management of it. We’ll describe
how in this seminar, as well as covering Cisco network management
tools that may help you.
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| CallManager
and Dial Plans |
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In this seminar we cover configuring voice dial plans with
Cisco CallManager. First, we discuss good design practices
for configuring dial plans and then we present and review
screen shots showing sample CallManager configurations. We
also review some system monitoring techniques.
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| Quality
of Service for Voice over IP |
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Quality of Service (QoS) is key to acceptance and use of Voice
over IP (VoIP). In this seminar we start from a traditional
telephony point of view, defining QoS, and looking at QoS
in a PBX environment. We then provide an overview of VoIP
technology and issues, and describe how to use QoS to minimize
VoIP issues. Following an overall review of QoS operation,
we review the implementation of QoS on Cisco devices.
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| Designing
and Configuring QoS in Voice and Video (AVVID) Networks |
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Using specific examples from within the AVVID infrastructure,
this seminar provides examples of designing and configuring
QoS. Although we focus on variable delay and QoS, packet loss
and fixed delay are also discussed. Implementation tools for
QoS are described and sample configurations on Cisco devices
supporting VoIP over Multilink PPP, VoIP over Frame Relay,
and VoIP over ATM are also reviewed.
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| Voice
and Video IPSec VPNs |
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In this seminar we go over Best Practices on extending AVVID
Voice and Video over an IPSec VPN (V3PN). It’s based
on Cisco AVVID and SRND design guides. We’ll focus on
Quality of Service and IPSec issues that arise when trying
to optimize IP telephony and Video for the IPSec VPN environment.
And we’ll also review IPSec and QoS, to make it more
accessible to a broad audience.
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| High-Availability
Campus Design – Best Practices |
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In this seminar we cover key issues in designing for
High-Availability switched Campus networks. The main
areas addressed are: Campus Design Principles, LAN Protocols
(with further comments), Adding Wireless to a campus
design, Managing the campus network, and High Availability.
Topics include Jumbo frames, Cisco
RPR+, using Cisco VTP, load balancing with VRRP or GLBP,
802.1s and w (Multiple and Rapid Spanning Tree), and
using Auxiliary VLAN's for IP Telephony and for manageability.
We finish with High Availability, which requires both
technology and management.
Attendees should have some prior familiarity
with basic Campus Design, but the seminar can easily
be supplemented for audiences needing a review or summary
of prior Best Practices. The Cisco Networkers 2002 RST-271
presentation also provides a solid background for this
seminar.
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| IP
Multicast Basics |
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This seminar provides an overview of IP multicast and
describes where it is appropriate in networking environments.
It also offers a brief discussion of IP multicast-related
tools as well as sample multicast configurations for
Cisco devices.
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| MPLS
VPNs |
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In this seminar we discuss Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). We discuss why organizations
are implementing MPLS VPNs, provide a quick review of BGP
as relevant to MPLS, provide a technical overview of the operation
of MPLS VPNs and, lastly, we review some sample MPLS VPN configurations
on Cisco devices.
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| MPLS
Design and Scaling |
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MPLS design and scaling issues are reviewed in this seminar.
Some of the major design factors for MPLS networks, including
AS routing and addressing, QoS, traffic engineering, and network
migration are discussed. Important factors affecting the scalability
of MPLS are also reviewed.
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| Troubleshooting
MPLS VPNs |
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This seminar covers troubleshooting MPLS VPNs. We provide
an overview of MPLS VPN routing and then discuss the merits
and strengths of various commands used for troubleshooting.
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| Condensed
QoS for MPLS |
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The Condensed QoS for MPLS seminar reviews QoS as it applies
to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). First, a QoS overview
is presented and then some options for QoS in Cisco MPLS are
explained. Finally, some configuration examples of QoS for
MPLS using Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing are discussed.
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| Quality
of Service Overview |
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In this seminar we discuss specifically what Quality of Service
(QoS) is, when it’s needed, and how to configure QoS
on Cisco devices. We also perform a high-level review of managing
QoS, establishing QoS for voice traffic, and implementing
QoS in the campus environment.
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| Quality
of Service |
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The Quality of Service seminar expands upon the Quality of
Service Overview seminar by providing additional details on
how to configure QoS on Cisco devices. We also review managing
QoS, establishing QoS for voice traffic, and implementing
QoS in the campus environment.
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| Quality
of Service for Voice over IP |
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The Quality of Service for Voice over IP (VoIP) seminar illustrates
the need for QoS for VoIP by describing the factors affecting
network voice quality and explaining how QoS can improve the
quality of VoIP in a network.
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| Quality
of Service in the Campus |
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This seminar offers a discussion of the need for QoS in a
campus switched network. We describe several QoS capabilities
supported by the Cisco switch families and provide examples
of how to configure QoS in Cisco 6500 and 4000 series switches.
We conclude by explaining key aspects of switch-based QoS
techniques for VoIP and Video.
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QoS and H.323 Gatekeepers for IP Video Conferencing |
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This seminar provides an overview of the H.323 standard for
multimedia communication services by describing H.323 terminology.
We provide an in-depth discussion of H.323 video and audio
traffic behavior and discuss recommended Quality of Service
practices for IP video conferencing traffic.
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QoS for Streaming Video |
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In the QoS for Streaming Video seminar, we describe why QoS
is needed with streaming video and explain recommended QoS
practices. In addition, we provide some sample configurations
for QoS with streaming video.
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| Quality
of Service for Voice over IP II |
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This seminar looks at Quality of Service (QoS) starting from
a traditional telephony point of view. It discusses what is
QoS, and looks at QoS in a PBX environment. It overviews Voice
over IP (VoIP) technology and issues, and describes using
QoS to minimize VoIP issues. QoS operation is reviewed. Finally,
the seminar reviews implementing QoS on Cisco devices.
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| Designing
and Configuring QoS in Voice and Video (AVVID) Networks |
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Using specific examples from within the AVVID infrastructure,
this seminar offers a look at designing and configuring QoS.
Although the discussion focusses on variable delay and QoS,
packet loss and fixed delay are also covered. QoS implementation
tools are described and sample configurations on Cisco devices
supporting VoIP over Multilink PPP, VoIP over Frame Relay,
and VoIP over ATM are reviewed.
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| QoS:
Call Admission Control (CAC) and RSVP |
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In this seminar, Call Admission Control for basic H.323 and
RSVP-based applications are reviewed. Other forms of CAC are
discussed, along with gatekeepers, multi-zone WANs, and provisioning
bandwidth for CAC. Specific configuration samples for CAC
will be analyzed, and we will also provide recommendations
on supporting CAC.
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| Managing
QoS -- Overview |
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This seminar provides an overview to managing QoS. We will
review the various kinds of data available from Cisco devices,
and describe how this data provides useful information in
monitoring QoS. Various Cisco tools useful for managing QoS,
such as QPM, QDM, and IPM, as well as other network management
tools will be discussed.
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| Condensed
QoS for MPLS |
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The Condensed QoS for MPLS seminar provides a look at QoS
as it applies to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). First
an overview to QoS is presented, and then some options for
QoS in Cisco MPLS are explained. We will also provide some
configuration examples of QoS for MPLS using Class-Based Weighted
Fair Queuing.
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| QoS
Design, Implementation, and Troubleshooting |
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This seminar offers a look at designing, implementing, and
troubleshooting QoS. It includes discussions on the interaction
and issues with applications such as Content Delivery Networking,
and SAN with QoS. The major QoS design considerations are
discussed, and the stages of implementing QoS in a network
are described. The seminar concludes with an overview of troubleshooting
practices for QoS.
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| Fighting
Spam |
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Spam will be defined in this seminar, and we will discuss
the methodology some of today's most prolific spammers. We
will explore the legal side of stopping spam, and move on
to detailed discussions about various technical approaches
to filter and block spam. In the final section, we build a
sample architecture that can be used to filter spam in the
enterprise.
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| Security Trends from a SMB Perspective |
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Security trends for the small and medium business will be reviewed in this presentation. We
will discuss both internal and external security threats, as well as wireless and VoIP security. We will also cover preventing surprises.
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| Introduction
to IPSec VPNs |
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In this seminar we discuss the basics of IPsec VPN's and make
recommendations based on the Cisco IPSec VPN SRND (Solution
Network Reference Design). We discuss using GRE tunnels with
IPSec in a dual-hub and spoke-redundant design, and with dynamic
re-routing if there is an outage. This design allows for simple
configuration and troubleshooting with good performance. In
this we seminar also present sample configurations for hub
and spoke (branch site) routers.
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| Fighting
Spam |
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Spam will be defined in this seminar, and we will discuss
the methodology some of today's most prolific spammers. We
will explore the legal side of stopping spam, and move on
to detailed discussions about various technical approaches
to filter and block spam. In the final section, we build a
sample architecture that can be used to filter spam in the
enterprise.
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| Voice
and Video IPSec VPNs |
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In this seminar we go over Best Practices on extending AVVID
Voice and Video over an IPSec VPN (V3PN). It’s based
on Cisco AVVID and SRND design guides. We’ll focus on
Quality of Service and IPSec issues that arise when trying
to optimize IP telephony and Video for the IPSec VPN environment.
And we’ll also review IPSec and QoS, to make it more
accessible to a broad audience.
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| Designing
Secure Wireless Networks |
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IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A SECURE WIRELESS LAN?
Yes there is, when you understand the technology
options and how to choose among them. And you will after attending
the Cisco Systems / Chesapeake NetCraftsmen Designing Secure
Wireless Networks Seminar.
We’ll help you understand what
happens to LAN technologies when you add wireless to the mix,
as well as the most recent developments in security and authentication.
With a better understanding of today’s
WLAN applications, you’ll be much closer to making them
secure.
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