CIS 265 - WAN Technologies and VPN Security

5 Credits

CIS265 focuses on wide area network technologies, network services and network design criteria required by complex interconnected networks. This course enables students to evaluate various network devices and wide area network technologies to meet the corporate network requirements. Students learn how to select, deploy, configure, and troubleshoot various network devices and select appropriate network devices to design small to medium size corporate network. In addition, students will gain necessary skills to design and implement virtual private network (VPN) and IPSec operations in complex network. This course can be delivered on site or hybrid.

Pre-requisite(s) CIS 262 min 2.0
FeesCF

Quarters Typically Offered

Fall Day
Winter Day

Designed to Serve Network Specialist and BAS in Cyber Security/Digital Forensic majors to add cutting edge technical and designing skills required for entry level Pre-Sales Support and entry-level Network engineer, Network Design jobs for medium to small enterprise business, network operating center, data center and health industry and government sector.
Active Date 2014-03-26

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 44 Lab 22 Field Studies 0 Clinical 0 Independent Studies 0
Total Contact Hours 66
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline
Describe Hierarchical Network Design Connecting to WAN Understand and describe different WAN technologies and their benefits Understand and describe the operations and benefits of virtual private networks (VPNs) and tunneling Configure and troubleshoot serial connections Configure and troubleshoot broadband connections Configure and troubleshoot IPSec tunneling operations Monitor and troubleshoot network operations using syslog, SNMP, and NetFlow Design network architectures: - Borderless networks - Data centers and virtualization - Collaboration technology and solutions

Student Learning Outcomes
Describe different WAN technologies and their benefits

Describe the operations and benefits of virtual private networks (VPNs) and tunneling

Configure and troubleshoot serial connections

Configure and troubleshoot broadband connections

Configure and troubleshoot IPsec tunneling operations

Monitor and troubleshoot network operations using syslog, SNMP, and NetFlow

Describe network architectures