About this Course

The Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Mobility Services course is a 5 day ILT course, designed to help students prepare for the CCNP-Wireless certification, a professional level certification specializing in the wireless field. The IUWMS course is a component of the proposed CCNP-Wireless (Cisco Certified Wireless Professional) curriculum.  The goal of the IUWMS v2.0 is to provide professionals with information to prepare them to integrate mobility services into the network; tune and troubleshoot the WLAN running mobility services, and implement mesh networks The IUWMS reinforces the instruction by providing students with hands-on labs to ensure students thoroughly understand how to implement mobility services in the wireless network.

Audience Profile

Target candidate roles for this course are: wireless network administrators and engineers with 3-5 years experience in the field.  The target audiences for the course are: wireless network planners/designers, wireless network administrators/managers, wireless network engineers, mid-level wireless support engineers, wireless technical marketing engineers, wireless system engineers, and wireless test engineers.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Design a WLAN infrastructure for mobility
• Implement advanced services and manage with the WCS and WCS Navigator
• Implement Cisco’s Location-based Services
• Implement the Mobility Services Engine into the wireless network
• Describe the outdoor wireless networks and products
• Implement and manage an indoor enterprise mesh
• Optimize and troubleshoot the WLAN

Prerequisites

• Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1)
• Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Networking Essentials (IUWNE)

Course Outline

Module 0 -- Course Introduction

Module 1 – Design WLAN Infrastructure for Mobility

• Utilizing Best Practices for WLAN Mobility Services
• Identifying Implications of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Roaming
• Designing for High Availability
• Implementing Single SSID Designs with Mobility
• Describing Cisco CleanAir

Module 2 – Implement Advanced Services and Manage with Cisco WCS and Cisco WCS Navigator

• Installing the WCS and Navigator
• Configuring Controllers and Access Points Using WCS Templates
• Configuring WCS for WLC Auto-provisioning
• Implementing WCS Partitioning
• Scheduling Wireless Access using WCS
• Configuring Reports
• Configuring Administrative Tasks
• Monitoring and Converting Autonomous APs using WCS
• Describing the Roles, Features, and Functions of Cisco WCS Navigator

Module 3 – Design WLAN for Context-Aware Services

• Describing Positioning Techniques
• Identifying Deployment Requirements
• Describing Applications of RFID, Chokepoint and TDoA

Module 4 –Implement Cisco Context-Aware Services

• Describing Mobility Services Architecture
• Configuring the Cisco 3300 Series MSE
• Integrating and Managing the 3300 Series MSE with WCS
• Configuring and Tuning the 3300 Series MSE for Context-Aware Services
• Tracking Mobile Clients
• Configuring, Generating, and Interpreting Location and Event Notifications
• Integrating Third-Party Applications
• Describing MSE Maintenance
• Troubleshooting Context-aware Services

Module 5 – Implementing and Managing Indoor and Outdoor Networks

• Describing Wireless Mesh Networks
• Describing Mesh Formation
• Implementing an Outdoor Wireless Mesh Network
• Configuring Advanced Features in a Wireless Mesh Network
• Configuring WCS for a Mesh Network
• Troubleshooting an Indoor Wireless Mesh Network
• Using Workgroup Bridges
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting Clients