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Network management and configuration

Objectives

Give the students a practical and operational vision of  computer networks concepts.

Upon successful completion the student should be able to:

Configure a distributed communications network including: network infrastrucure planning, network element configuration and network managment. Covering enterprise campus networks, metro acess networks and service provider core networks.

Be capable of implementing advanced switching (layer 2) and routing (layer 3) designs

Be capable of developing small software programs to perform simple tasks in software defined networks.

Have knowledge of latest network design and technologies, including network infrastructure, intelligent network services and converged network solutions.

General characterization

Code

10487

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Paulo da Costa Luís da Fonseca Pinto, Pedro Miguel Figueiredo Amaral

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 84

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the TCP/IP architecture. 

Bibliography

"Implementing Cisco Switched Networks Foundation Learning guide" Richard Froom, Balai Sivasubramarian and Erun Frahim, Cisco Press 2010.

"Implementing Cisco IP routing Foundation Learning guide" Diane Teare, Cisco Press 2010.

"Software Defined Networks a comprehensive approach" Paul Goransson and Chuck Black, Morgan Kaufmann, 2014. 

Sanchez, R. (2008). Ethernet as a carrier grade technology: developments and innovations. Communications Magazine, IEEE, (September).

Decusatis, C. (2012). Communication within clouds: open standards and proprietary protocols for data center networking. Communications Magazine, IEEE, (September). 

Teaching method

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Evaluation method

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Subject matter

Network Architectures
Review of the most common network types and associated technology

Switched Networks
Collision domains and broadcast domains. VLANs as a means to reduce broadcast domains.
Configuring Link Aggregation with EtherChannel
Configuring Trunks to transport several VLANs
Spanning Tree Protocol versions and configuration
Routing Between VLANs 

Routed Networks

IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
EIGRP Design, configuration and verification
OSPF Design, configuration and verification
Route maps, access control lists and prefix lists
BGP Design, configuration and verification

Service Provider networks

Access Networks - Types of service. 

Ethernet supported services ((Provider Bridging 802.1ad and Provider Backbone Bridging 802.1ah) 

MPLS supported services (VPNs Layer 3, Pseudowires e VPNs Layer 2 ou VPLS)

Software Defined Networks

Control plane and forwarding plane separation.

Southbound API

Automation using APIs : RESTCONF and NETCONF

The OpenFlow protocol and P4 protocol.

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
5G networks and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
NFV Management and orchestration (MANO) 
The virtual network functions (VNFs) placement and Service Chaining problems
NFC and SDN interaction