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| NETWORKERS POWER SESSIONS ABSTRACTS |
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| PWR-5001 |
Security for Network Engineers: How to Think Like a Security Administrator When It's Not Your Full-time Job |
This Power Session
is SOLD OUT in Orlando, however seats are still available in Los Angeles.
As network security moves more and more into the infrastructure of a network, pressures on network engineers to be security-literate continue to grow. Also, as smaller enterprises increase their reliance on networked systems, they need network engineers to keep these systems secure. This session will provide the network engineer with practical information on network security operations in a limited time budget.
Topics covered include staying abreast of the latest vulnerability information, how to evaluate your network's security, how to properly evaluate vendor security updates, how to detect intrusions, what to do in case of intrusion, how to deal with networking and security configuration on the same device, and how to translate a security policy into a functional secure network. Attendees can expect to walk away with operational guidelines that can be applied to their networks.
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| PWR-5002 |
Developing and Implementing an 802.11 Wireless Network |
This Power Session
is SOLD OUT in Orlando, however seats are still available in Los Angeles.
This session will look at the elements needed to design and deploy a wireless LAN (WLAN) network. Primary topics will include WLAN technologies and design guidelines with focus on troubleshooting. We will review various 802.11 technologies, directly relating to radio frequency design and site-survey guidelines. The session will take a building-block approach to design, providing a complete set of design guidelines for deploying a secure, versatile 802.11 WLAN network.
Additional topics will include: WLAN security, virtual LANs (VLANs), quality of service (QoS), voice over IP (VoIP), and 802.1x design guidelines. WLANs are typically implemented to enable mobility therefore the topic of wireless roaming will be covered and will feature technologies such as Layer 2 802.11 Roaming, Proxy Mobile IP, and Mobile IP. This session will recommend equipment based on applications to be implemented over the WLAN, and implementation requirements for other 802.11 variants. Finally, WLAN troubleshooting will be covered as well.
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| PWR-5003 |
Enterprise IP Multicast |
IP Multicast is a rapidly growing technology that supports new applications such as distance learning, conferencing, stock market data feeds, and many others. While IP Multicast at its simplest is very easy to configure, IP Multicast routing is almost a complete technology unto itself and uses mechanisms that differ dramatically from those used in IP Unicast routing. It is not uncommon for network engineers or administrators to find themselves overwhelmed by these differences when first attempting to design, build, and/or troubleshoot IP Multicast networks.
This tutorial takes the attendee "from zero to light-speed" in one intense day of IP multicast training and includes a printed Student Guide. The tutorial will begin with the basic multicast concepts such as distribution trees, multicast addresses, and address assignment. It will also cover the mechanics of the Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routing protocol in extensive detail. In addition, the topic of PIM sparse-mode Rendezvous Points and their use will be presented in detail, including the use of Auto-RP, Bootstrap Router (BSR), and Anycast Rendezvous Points. Once these fundamental concepts have been covered, the session will introduce several important extensions to the PIM model such as Bidirectional PIM and Source Specific Multicast (SSM), which allow network designers to tailor the performance, scalability, and security of their multicast network. Finally, the session will present several topics on deploying IP Multicast in enterprise networks, providing detailed deployment guidelines and case studies for both basic and advanced IP Multicast networks.
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| PWR-5004 |
Designing an Enterprise IP Telephony Network |
This Power Session is SOLD OUT in Orlando, however seats are still available in Los Angeles.
This session will provide comprehensive design guidelines and best practices for Enterprise IP Telephony deployments based on Cisco CallManager.
Topics will include: Network infrastructure (Campus LAN, WAN, QoS, high availability, and redundancy); IP telephony infrastructure (Gateways, protocols, call processing, scaling, call-admission control, dial plan, and infrastructure security); Telephony applications (Voice mail, computer telephony concepts including Telephony Application Program Interface [TAPI] and Java TAPI, and application-development platforms); Interoperability with existing business systems (Private branch exchanges [PBXs], voice mail, and directories).
While covering these topics, this session will show an example network that follows the rules and guidelines outlined to illustrate the operation. This offers an opportunity for participants to experience the results of the network firsthand.
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| PWR-5005 |
Data Center Networking |
This power session discusses data center design and implementation considerations related to Layer 2, Layer 3, Server Load Balancing (SLB), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) offloading, multiple-tier application architectures, network security, distributed data centers, and various aspects of data center network management. The session starts by discussing the data center infrastructure, Layer 2 and Layer 3, which supports the addition of other services such as network security and load balancing. The session then focuses on integrating SLB and SSL offloading into the infrastructure, which leads to the integration of multiple-tier application architectures into the data center design. The next topic is the integration of network security services into the infrastructure and its existing services, including the likely application tiers. This is followed by a discussion on connecting distributed data centers whether front-end for client-to-server purposes or back-end for server-to-server or storage-to-storage purposes. The final topic includes discussions on managing the infrastructure and the services provided by the data center. The topics are structured as building blocks from the basic infrastructure to distributed data centers.
The Layer 2 section includes recommendations for Layer 2 topologies and the use of shielded twisted-pair (STP) enhancements aimed at lowering the convergence time, including the recent 802.1s and 802.1w protocols. The Layer 3 discussion includes recommendations on how to design and integrate the data center and all of its likely services into the rest of the Layer 3 network. The service integration section discusses a service-ready architecture for SLB, SSL, firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDSs), and appliances or modules in the infrastructure. The multilayer application architectures discusses design issues pertaining to client-server environments, such as the n-tier model that includes thin clients, Web servers, application servers, and database servers. The security section provides a comprehensive network security approach to protecting data center and server farms from internal or external attacks by using access control lists (ACLs), firewalls, IDSs, and security templates throughout the data center. The distributed data centers section discusses site-to-site recovery and multiple-site load-distribution designs and the available transport technologies. The data center management section discusses the different operational areas separately: infrastructure, application environments, network security, and distributed data center capacity planning.
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| PWR-5006 |
Interior Gateway
Protocols |
This session examines deploying and troubleshooting advanced interior gateway protocols, including OSPF, IS-IS, and EIGRP. The session begins with an overview of various routing advanced protocols, including how Bellman-Ford, DUAL, and SPF-based calculations of loop-free paths work. The session then includes a discussion of the fundamental goals in network design and hiding information. The session considers two- and three-layer hierarchical designs, with approaches to two- and three-layer designs in each of the three advanced protocols.
After covering the fundamentals, attendees will discuss techniques for using design principles presented in real-world networks, including how to create opportunities within a network for applying these principles. The session also covers high availability and convergence within the context of network design, and pitfalls and suggestions provided for deploying EIGRP, IS-IS, and OSPF on specific topologies, including large aggregation. Finally the session will consider redistribution, including a discussion on methods and techniques that can safely redistribute between routing protocols.
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| PWR-5008 |
Creating and Maintaining High Availability IP Networks |
There is no denying that IP networks have become critical infrastructure for many organizations. Network outages equate to direct and indirect monetary losses. In this full-day session you will learn how to achieve high availability with your network and sustain the level of availability over time.
What causes networks to go down? Are there IP networks that are able to achieve the desired availability? How are these organizations different? What changes or investments were made to achieve higher availability?
This power session first reviews the components of network availability (technology, hardware, software, links, cables, power, environment, and user-error and process) and how these components impact availability. Common outage types are investigated with a realistic analysis of how they occur and how to prevent them. This analysis uses the Plan, Design, Implement, Operate (PDIO) model to discuss outages not as one-time events, but as a sequence of events or processes that lead to outages. Prevention methodologies are then analyzed by examining people, process, tools, and technology in each of the PDIO layers.
This session then examines the protocols, features, and techniques that are critical to reducing outage frequency and mitigating their impact. Discussion topics will include available technologies at each level of the OSI model: Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), resilient packet ring (RPR), and EtherChannel® technology at Layer 1; tuning Spanning-Tree Protocol at Layer 2; and improving convergence of Layer 3 routing protocols through load-balancing techniques. Examples will show how these technologies provide the network resilience that keeps a small error from becoming an outage. These examples will then facilitate a discussion on network design.
The session will close with recommendations on how to achieve and maintain the level of availability that your organization requires.
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| PWR-5010 |
Realizing the Promise of Intrusion Detection Systems |
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are a rapidly evolving technology. They hold the promise of greatly increasing the security posture of an organization beyond that which is available with traditional perimeter security devices. However, the technology brings with it significant challenges for the network security designer as well as the network security operations staff. A successful IDS deployment requires in-depth knowledge of the networks to be monitored, the potential attacks and threats to those networks, and the possible responses that IDSs can provide. Sensors must be tuned to their environment, and the maintenance and monitoring of the systems often require changes to the network monitoring operations of an organization. All of these challenges must be addressed to realize the promise of IDS technologies.
This session will take the attendees through a detailed discussion of IDS technology as well as a complete IDS deployment. Signature- and anomaly-based IDS models will be discussed as well as hybrid IDS models. Host, network-based, and network-node IDS models will be examined, along with the unique problems they solve. A discussion of IDS deployment and monitoring best practices will follow. The session will dive deeply into the function of IDS detection engines and how they perform packet- and flow-analysis. A discussion of sensor tuning, the most critical step in a successful IDS deployment, will cover general principles of traffic analysis, network design, and alarm analysis. Monitoring, alarm aggregation, and incidence-response techniques will follow the tuning discussion to provide attendees with a complete deployment scenario.
The session will close with a presentation of case studies of IDS deployment including the challenges faced by the network engineers and the success or failures of each deployment.
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| PWR-5011 |
Campus, Branch, and Teleworker Design with Emerging Technologies |
Network managers and architects are increasingly faced with demands to enable new emerging technologies, services, and solutions in order to maximize the investment in the communications infrastructure. In many instances, the new network services may face interoperability challenges. At other times, these new technologies and solutions may impact the overall network design.
This power session is targeted at the design considerations involved in deploying several new solutions generated by emerging technologies such as wireless LANs, network security, roaming, campus identity services, VPN services, teleworkers, and IP Version 6 design implications.
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| PWR-5012 |
Video and Web Edge Delivery |
Is your network bandwidth consumed by Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) traffic? In this session, you will learn the details of these protocols, the applications that use them, and how Content Delivery Networking (CDN) can help these applications achieve optimum performance.
Has part of your organization tried to deploy e-learning applications but the network won't support it? This session will provide you with the tools to safely deploy e-learning. If you want to stream Internet-sourced business Webcasts to employees like quarterly results, this session will show you how to scale live Internet audio and video to all your employees. It has become common for organizations to proxy cache Web-protocol requests to the Internet for authentication, content filtering, and logging, therefore we will cover how to implement Internet proxies to manage and scale employee Internet access. If you run Web enabled enterprise applications like Oracle Finance, Siebel, SAP, or others this session will show you how to accelerate the performance of just about any Web enabled application.
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| PWR-5013 |
Military Network-Centric Transformation NCW |
This power session focuses on the use and implementation of current technologies such as IPv6, QoS, security, wireless, and mobility to enhance the capabilities of military operations. We will discuss detailed network architectures that provide state-of-the-art communications for joint forces, U.S. and Allied forces, and coalition forces. The session will focus on enabling next-generation communications and collaboration networks using ground- and space-based architectures. At the end of the session, we will provide an overview on how today's military transformational networks are empowering military information superiority.
This session is intended for attendees with a basic understanding of military network requirements and functionality, such as network planners and military operations personnel.
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| PWR-5014 |
CCIE |
This Power Session is SOLD OUT in Orlando, however seats are still available in Los Angeles.
For nearly a decade, Cisco Systems' Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) program has set the professional benchmark for internetworking expertise. CCIE emphasizes acquired skills and knowledge, validating an individual's technical expertise through practical performance-based testing. By becoming a CCIE, individuals can realize greater career opportunity, compensation and satisfaction. This session serves as an in-depth exam tutorial that addresses the technologies and concepts emphasized in the CCIE certification exams. Most of the topics are covered using router and switch configuration examples in an exam environment. Led by CCIE program content experts, this highly interactive session is designed to assist candidates in preparing for CCIE testing although engineers that are not candidates are also welcome to attend. This power session will cover: core internetworking topics that are required for all CCIE certifications, including IP Routing, Switching, ATM, Frame Relay, IP Multicast, Quality of Service (QoS) Performance Management, and ISDN. Discussion will emphasize critical issues such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing protocols concepts and configuration essentials.
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