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Large Scale Network Design LiveLessons takes you through the concepts behind stable, scalable, elegant network design, including modularity, resilience, layering, and security principles. This livelesson will focus on traditional distributed link state, distance vector, and path vector routing protocols, as well as the basic principles of centralized control planes (such as OpenFlow). A special point will be made of sorting out the relationship between policy and reachability, and where they can best be managed in a large scale network.
This video begins with an examination of basic network design principles, including an examination of modularization, hierarchy, summarization, aggregation, and resilience. More advanced foundational topics are then considered, such as an overview of network complexity, network models, and policy from within the context of the control plane. After this, the series will work through design using each of the distributed control planes, including OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, and BGP, on several network topologies to provide practical knowledge of actual deployment in real networks. The following section of this livelesson will consider the tradeoffs around programmable networks, including convergence, stability, and other factors. Finally, advanced topics, such as fast convergence, will be considered in detail, from principle to application in each protocol.
What You Will Learn
• Drivers behind network design considerations(
• Classic network design principles(
• How to define network complexity and understand complexity tradeoffs(
• Link-state design concepts(
• OSPF network design(
• IS-IS network design(
• EIGRP network design(
• BGP network design(
• Network security basics, hardening networks, and protecting hosts(
• Programmable network design
This video is targeted at a broad range of network engineers, including those who are just starting in the networking industry to seasoned professionals who would like to expand their knowledge from a narrow range of technologies to a broader range of technologies and the principles behind solid design. This video will be of particular interest to those who are studying for the Cisco Certified Design Expert and the Cisco Certified Architect certifications.
Lesson 1: Design Drivers
Lesson 1.1 Business Drivers and Modularization
Lesson 1.2 Security Design Drivers
Lesson 1.3 Applications and Availability
Lesson 2: Design Principles
Lesson 2.1 Failure Domains
Lesson 2.2 Hiding Information
Lesson 2.3 Aggregation and Redistribution
Lesson 2.4 Design Patterns
Lesson 2.5 Common Topologies
Lesson 2.6 Spine and Leaf
Lesson 2.7 Uncommon Topologies
Lesson 2.8 Data Plane Models
Lesson 2.9 Hybrid Device Model
Lesson 3: Network Complexity
Lesson 3.1 Defining Complexity
Lesson 3.2 Understanding Complexity Tradeoffs
Lesson 4: Link State Design
Lesson 4.1 Link State Review
Lesson 4.2 Flooding Domain Operation and Size
Lesson 4.3 Optimizing Link State Convergence
Lesson 4.4 Link State on Complex Topologies
Lesson 4.5 Loop-Free Alternates
Lesson 4.6 Interaction with BGP
Lesson 4.7 Fast Convergence Considerations
Lesson 5: OSPF Design
Lesson 5.1 OSPF Flooding Domains
Lesson 5.2 OSPF Suboptimal Summaries
Lesson 5.3 OSPF on a Ring
Lesson 5.4 OSPF on Spine and Leaf
Lesson 5.5 OSPF Externals
Lesson 5.6 Other OSPF Design Factors
Lesson 6: IS-IS Design
Lesson 6.1 IS-IS Flooding Domains
Lesson 6.2 IS-IS Flooding Domain Lab
Lesson 6.3 IS-IS Summaries and Route Leaking
Lesson 6.4 IS-IS Metrics and Externals
Lesson 6.5 IS-IS Metrics in the Lab
Lesson 6.6 Optimizing IS-IS Operation
Lesson 7: EIGRP Design
Lesson 7.1 EIGRP Operation
Lesson 7.2 EIGRP Convergence
Lesson 7.3 EIGRP Summarization
Lesson 7.4 EIGRP Externals
Lesson 7.5 EIGRP Stubs
Lesson 8: BGP Design
Lesson 8.1 BGP Review
Lesson 8.2 BGP Metrics and Policy
Lesson 8.3 BGP at the Edge
Lesson 8.4 BGP in the Core
Lesson 9: Network Security
Lesson 9.1 Security Basics
Lesson 9.2 Hardening the Network
Lesson 9.3 Protecting Hosts
Lesson 10: Programmable Networks
Lesson 10.1 CAP Theorem and Control Planes
Lesson 10.2 Centralization versus Decentralization
Lesson 10.3 A Taxonomy of Programmable Networks