CCIE Voice Lab candidates who are within the last months before their Lab Exam. Because this class does not cover introductory material students are expected to have attended our IEATC-VO class and completed labs from our CCIE Voice Lab Workbooks Volume I and Volume II.

This class will also benefit CCIE candidates who may have attempted the actual CCIE Voice Lab Exam without passing and feel they need to take their knowledge and understanding of Voice technologies/topics to the next level before attempting the Lab again.

Instructor

The instructor for this class is Brian Dennis CCIE #2210 (R&S/ ISP Dial/ Security/ Service Provider). Brian will have completed the CCIE Voice lab prior to teaching the first scheduled class which will give him his 5th CCIE. Brian brings years of real world voice experience to the class. As early as 1998 he was working in the field designing, implementing and supporting some of the very first Cisco voice deployments. He has worked for Cisco Systems twice over the past 11 years, once as a Voice Development Testing Engineer and also taught some of the early Cisco voice classes for various learning partners. One of the biggest advantages is that he will be bringing the same highly successful teaching methodology used in our CCIE R&S product line to the new CCIE Voice product line.

Overview

Internetwork Expert's CCIE Voice Bootcamp (IEBC-VO) is a one-week (5 Day version) or two-week (12 Day version) live Instructor-Led class. This class is part lecture part hands-on, and focuses both on developing a structured approach to CCIE Lab strategy and advanced hands-on scenarios. The 12 Day version includes four full-scale lab scenarios that will be completed during class and gone over by the instructor.

Students will each have access to their OWN dedicated voice rack built around Cisco's hardware/software specifications!

The CCIE Lab strategy portion of class covers topics such as what to expect the day of your lab, how to prioritize tasks, how to build and verify the network, how to manage your time, and how to track your progress as the instructors walk you step-by-step through various CCIE Lab scenarios. During the first two days of the hands-on portion of class students will be provided with advanced technology focused scenarios not found in any of our other product lines. On these days students will spend half the time live on the equipment configuring these scenarios, and the other half with the instructors walking through the configurations and answering any technology specific questions. For the remaining days students will work on unique full-scale 8-hour CCIE Voice mock lab scenarios to configure. The following day this scenario will be reviewed step-by-step with the instructor and detailed explanation will be provided about the technologies/topics covered, interpretations of the questions, and common mistakes the students have made with relation to each task.

At-a-Glance

• 5 Day version is run from Monday - Friday.
• 12 Day version is run from Monday through the following Friday (weekend included).
• The 12 Day version contains four additional full scale mock lab scenarios.
• Classes start at 9am local time and typically run 11+ hours per day.  
• Each student is ensured individual instructor time and access to their own rack of voice gear. No other Bootcamp gives you access to this much voice gear!
• Snacks and refreshments are provided free of charge.

Topics

• The materials used in this class are written around Cisco's CCIE Voice Lab Blueprint and are not found in any of our other products
  
  
  • Basic Campus Design
    1. DHCP, TFTP
    2. Catalyst voice and data VLAN configuration
    3. Catalyst VTP configuration
    
    
  • Call Manager and Call Manager Express Configuration
    1. Phone registration
    2. Phone configuration
    
    
  • Voice Gateway and Signaling
    1. Analog and digital voice protocols: analog FXS, FXO-M1, T1, E1, PRI, CAS, R2
    2. VoIP protocols: H323, MGCP, SCCP, SIP, RAS
    
    
  • Call Routing
    1. CCM route patterns (@ wildcard not tested)
    2. CCM route preference and redundancy
    3. IOS dial peers
    4. Digit manipulation and translation
    
    
  • Voice CODEC
    1. G711ulaw, G711alaw, G729, G723
    
    
  • Call Admission Control
    1. Location-based
    2. RAS-based
    
    
  • High Availability Features
    1. SRST
    2. AAR
    
    
  • Media Resource Management
    1. Conference bridge software and hardware
    2. Transcoder
    3. MTP
    4. MOH
    
    
  • QoS Considerations
    1. L2/L3 classifications and policing
    2. Queuing mechanisms
    3. LFI
    4. Catalyst switch QoS
    
    
  • Unified Messaging
    1. Unity voicemail integration
    2. Unity administration
    
    
  • CRS/IPCC Express Application
    1. Default script configuration and integration
    2. Custom script configuration and integration
    
    
  • Call Manager Voice Applications
    1. Any native applications to Call Manager. Examples are extension mobility, attendant console, IPMA
    
    
  • Supplementary Services
    
  • Directory Services and Integration
    
  • Fax
    1. Fax pass-through
    2. Fax relay
    

Hardware

• Our voice hardware specification is built around Cisco's published CCIE Voice hardware specification
  
  
  • HQ Site
    1. 2811 - VWIC-2MFT-T1, HWIC-4ESW, PVDM2-32
    2. Catalyst 6500 - WS-X6608-T1, WS-X6348-RJ-45
    3. ATA-186
    4. VG248
    5. CCM version 4.1(3) - Publisher and Subscriber
    6. Unity version 4.0(5)
    7. CRS version 4.0(1)
    8. Three IP Phones
    
    
  • BR1 Site
    1. 2811 - VWIC-2MFT-T1, HWIC-4ESW, PVDM2-32, VIC2-2FXS
    2. Three IP Phones
    
    
  • BR2 Site
    1. 2811 - VWIC-2MFT-E1, PVDM2-32, AIM-CUE
    2. Catalyst 3550 Inline Power
    3. Three IP Phones
    
    
  • PSTN
    1. 2811 - Three VWIC-2MFT-T1s and a VWIC-2MFT-E1
    2. One IP Phone