Objectives

Description

Customer Network Design Requirements

Identify initial network design requirements for:

·         Juniper Networks life-cycle service approach

·         Proposal boundaries and considerations

·         Greenfield and brownfield deployments

·         Top-down networks

·         Capacity planning

Identify the roles of different Juniper products and solutions, including:

·         Routers

·         Switches

·         Security

·         WLAN

·         Software-defined networking (SDN)

·         Network management

Securing the Network

Identify security design principles for:

·         General security design and considerations

·         Securing a data center

·         Securing the campus WAN

·         Zero-trust security

·         Secure access service edge (SASE)

Network Management or Reliability

Identify network design considerations for business continuity, including:

·         High-resiliency design

·         Link- and device-level redundancy

·         Multihomed Ethernet Segment Identifier Link Aggregation Groups (ESI LAGs)

·         Juniper Networks SRX Firewalls redundancy

·         Virtual chassis

·         Campus redundancy best practices

Identify design considerations for network automation, including:

·         Benefits of network automation

·         Juniper automation products

·         Junos® XML, Representational State Transfer (REST), JSD APIs

·         Junos OS on-box and off-box automation

Identify design considerations for network management strategies, including:

·         Network management methodologies

·         Separation of production and management traffic

·         Configuration backups

·         Remote console access

·         Juniper network management strategies

Campus and Branch LAN Design

Identify considerations for a wired campus or branch LAN, including:

·         Campus LAN design best practices

·         Modular design

·         Subnet and VLAN design

·         Access control design

·         Ethernet VPN-Virtual Extensible LAN (EVPN-VXLAN) architecture

·         Campus oversubscription ratios

·         Campus design architectures

Identify considerations for a wireless LAN, including:

·         WLAN design phases

·         Gathering business requirements

·         Gathering technical requirements

·         Device types

·         Designing secondary coverage

·         Designing real-time location services

·         Access point (AP) coverage patterns

·         Co-channel contention

·         Gathering RF requirements

·         RF modeling

Campus and Branch WAN Design

Identify considerations for a campus or branch WAN, including:

·         Campus or branch WAN connectivity functions

·         Best practices for designing the campus or branch WAN

·         Campus WAN performance

·         Campus WAN VPN design

·         Campus active/active and active/passive high availability (HA)

Identify considerations for an SD-WAN, including:

·         SD-WAN design considerations

·         SD-WAN devices

·         Assurance models

·         SD-WAN intersite connectivity

Data Center Network Design

Identify considerations for general data center network, including:

·         Data center design best practices

·         Traffic patterns

·         Virtual chassis

·         Environmental considerations

·         Data center fabric architectures

Identify considerations for IP fabric-based data center network, including:

·         Benefits of IP fabric over other data center architectures

·         Design options with IP fabrics

·         Spine-and-leaf device placement recommendations

·         Underlay and overlay design

·         Routing protocol selection

·         IP fabric best practices

·         IP fabric scaling