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• Initial configuration procedures for ProCurve switches including basic configuration and monitoring.
• ProCurve Product Overview including products and ProCurve’s Adaptive Edge Architecture
• Configuring VLANs on HP ProCurve switches and topics such as directly connect routes and DHCP helper addresses are also addressed.
• Introduction to installation, configuration, device discovery, and performing network monitoring and maintenance using ProCurve Manager Plus.
• Increasing capacity and improving availability using link aggregation, Rapid Spanning Tree, Multiple Spanning Tree, and HP Switch Meshing.
• Introduction to Wide Area Networks (WANs)
• Introduction to dynamic routing protocols
• Introduction to traffic prioritization for converged data, voice and video networks
• Introduction to ProCurve’s wireless networking solutions
• Basic network troubleshooting techniques
• High level overview of the network design process

Students will gain an understanding of ProCurve’s Adaptive Edge Architecture, and learn how to design and implement Adaptive Edge networks. Students will get hands on experience performing initial configuration tasks for the latest ProCurve products including Ethernet switches, wireless access points, and an introduction to ProCurve Manager Plus.

Students learn troubleshooting techniques for Ethernet networks and ProCurve products while participating in fun, exciting lab activities, and have the benefit of a trained instructor providing troubleshooting tips and methodologies during the lab activities. AEF v8.41 will help prepare the student for the AEF v8.41 exam required for AIS certification.

• Describe basic Ethernet technologies and their relationship to technologies used in contemporary enterprise networks
• Describe IP addresses and IP addressing schemes
• Describe how switches and routers interconnect networks in larger topologies
• Describe VLANs and their basic usage in contemporary networks
• Describe how the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE ArchitectureTM enables the network to meet an increasing need for bandwidth and functionality
• Specify appropriate solutions for several network connectivity scenarios
• Enable remote management for a ProCurve switch
• Describe the characteristics of the four privilege levels available at the CLI, and how to navigate between them
• Upgrade the firmware on a ProCurve switch
• Configure and implement VLANs
• Describe the features and architecture of ProCurve Manager (PCM) and ProCurve Manager Plus (PCM+)
• Describe the differences between PCM and PCM+
• Describe how ProCurve switches balance traffic over aggregated links and enable port trunking on ProCurve switches
• List the differences between the IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree, and IEEE 802.1s Multi-instance Spanning Tree protocols and configure the appropriate versions on ProCurve switches
• Describe how HP Switch Meshing can be used to improve availability while increasing capacity within a Layer 2 switched network and how it functions within routed networks
• Describe basic Wide Area Networking technologies and their relationship to technologies used in contemporary enterprise networks
• Configure and troubleshoot a T1 or E1 physical connection and its data-link-layer PPP protocol
• Identify the standards and technologies used to prioritize IP traffic on converged networks
• Identify the technologies and implementations of 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)
• Describe the standards and technologies used to manage multicasting
• Describe how ProCurve switches support prioritization, PoE, and multicasting
• Describe the ProCurve family of wireless products
• Describe 802.11a/b/g fundamentals
• Configure, monitor and manage a ProCurve wireless access point
• Describe how the ProCurve Wireless Edge Services meets the data privacy and authentication requirements of wireless networks
• Describe how custom access policies, profiles, and traffic filters to meet the needs of specific organizations and users
• List the factors to consider when designing a switched network
• Design an adaptive switched network that supports high performance, high availability, and convergence, based on a set of customer requirements
• Describe a framework for basic network troubleshooting
• Identify tools that can be used to resolve problems with the network
• Interpret the output from the event log and system status displays