This course provides knowledge and skills necessary to deploy Extreme Networks’ Extreme Campus Controller. Students experience the deployment process from the beginning to completion learning all the essential steps and technologies. Lectures are supported equally with hands-on experience with XCCs and relevant access points.

Successful completion results in an operational WLAN with Open SSIDs, encryption and authentication, configuration settings, encryption and authentication, AP discovery, and equipment profiles used in the creation and management of Sites in XCC.

Upon completion of this course, students will have gained the working knowledge to:

• To deploy and manage Extreme Networks Campus Controllers based on reference architectures from Extreme Networks customer scenarios
• Take the ECS – XCC Deploy and Manage Exam

Fabric Deployment Options

• Overview
• Model Familiarization
• Initial Setup

Initial XCC Configuration

• Lab 1 XCC Initialization

Configuration Management

• Lab 2 XC Management Access Point Adoption Sites
• Lab 3 Creating Sites

Wireless LAN

• Open SSID
• Lab 4 Open WLAN

WLAN with Authentication

• Lab 5 Secure WLAN (PSK)
• Lab 6 Secure WLAN (802.1x)

Monitoring

• Lab 7 Monitoring

Tools

• Lab 8 Diagnostics

Management

• Lab 9 Configure XCC Credentials

This course is designed as the first step for individuals responsible for the installation, configuration and management of the Extreme Networks Campus Controllers.

Students should possess a solid grasp of WLAN concepts, including 802.11 Wifi standards, Ethernet, TCP/IP and have referenced and be comfortable with general wireless network topics.