What you will learn

  • Real-life Designs, Scenarios & Solutions

    Our content is based on the experience of our instructors, ensuring all courses are packed with real-life examples - making it a much better learning experience than reading from a textbook.

  • Beginner to Expert Level Content

    Our content is suitable for any IT journey, with skill level ranging from beginner to expert level network design. This includes courses explaining what it takes to be a network designer.

  • Vendor Agnostic Scenarios

    Our scenarios are not tied to the products of a specific manufacturer, meaning our solutions can be implemented with any off-the-shelf hardware. We then refer to specific vendors to provide examples.

Course Bonuses

In addition to full course access, you can also receive:

  • Guidance from expert instructors

    Our instructors base all course-content on real-life designs and scenarios, making our courses unique to the market. Our courses teach you things you can't always learn from a textbook.

  • Online community access

    Join like-minded network & security enthusiasts and professionals for discussions in our closed group forum.

  • Course completion certificates

    Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a certificate to confirm this which you can share on your social media such as LinkedIn to round out your profile.

Reviews

5 star rating

Brilliant Course and well followed through.

Ethan Jackson

This course is one of a kind and there is truly nothing like this on the market; throughout the course Malcolm was engaging from start to finish, following t...

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This course is one of a kind and there is truly nothing like this on the market; throughout the course Malcolm was engaging from start to finish, following through all sections in a very descriptive manner. For someone with very little to no network design experience, the course was easy to follow and very enjoyable to be learning new ways to focus on design, Malcolm takes you through a journey to make you think about the 'why' whilst providing his take on the steps to be followed. I personally can't wait for more content to be created!

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5 star rating

A clear analysis of the Network Design discipline.

Claudio Scacco

Interesting and focused overview in the network design discipline. A well done analysis of the day-by-day real life scenarios in this profession and an objec...

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Interesting and focused overview in the network design discipline. A well done analysis of the day-by-day real life scenarios in this profession and an objective description of its multiple roles.

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5 star rating

Network Design

Ekow Nyame Ayetsi

This is a well drafted course. I have learn so many things that I never knew as an IP Operations engineer. I Highly recommend this course to anyone in IP Ope...

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This is a well drafted course. I have learn so many things that I never knew as an IP Operations engineer. I Highly recommend this course to anyone in IP Operation role.

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5 star rating

Well designed and delivered course

Gareth Bevan

very impressed with the course and the content. Very well presented, littered with helpful tips from someone who has expert level knowledge of network design.

very impressed with the course and the content. Very well presented, littered with helpful tips from someone who has expert level knowledge of network design.

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5 star rating

Network Design Fundamentals

Vignesh Sethuraman

This course is a very good starting point for an Engineer who likes to pursue a career in Networking and Network Design.

This course is a very good starting point for an Engineer who likes to pursue a career in Networking and Network Design.

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5 star rating

One of the Best Network Designing Courses

Benedict Agyemang

This is one of the best Network Design course I have come across, there are so many of them, but this one is on point, easy to follow and I love the HDLC and...

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This is one of the best Network Design course I have come across, there are so many of them, but this one is on point, easy to follow and I love the HDLC and LLD diagrams and some of the examples you provided. I will recommend this course to any Network Engineer who wants to start doing some serious design, this is not a waste of time investment.

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5 star rating

Excelent course

Ariel Gustavo Heredia Oliva

It gives clear explanation to very important topics. It covers topic not covered in many other design courses.

It gives clear explanation to very important topics. It covers topic not covered in many other design courses.

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5 star rating

Network Design Career

Adrian Martinez

Thus far, very well presented. I hope there maybe new modules that discuss: Capacity Sizing Tuning Reference Bandwidth Overall Best Practice leveraging...

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Thus far, very well presented. I hope there maybe new modules that discuss: Capacity Sizing Tuning Reference Bandwidth Overall Best Practice leveraging Placement per Recommended Practices (Access, Agg & Core) of old school HSRP, Spanning Tree Root, VLAN SVIs to the high level basics to place an optimized solution together. Worth the money that I would highly recommend that I do daily as a Principal Architect & Design within the lifecycle Team. Keep up the great content!!

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5 star rating

Excellent Delivery

John Yuogan

Delivery is very precise and concise. Good Work

Delivery is very precise and concise. Good Work

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5 star rating

Excellent course covering the systems engineering process...

Luke Bibby

Malcolm has applied a top-down systems engineering process to network design and provides clear examples of real designs that he has worked on previously whi...

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Malcolm has applied a top-down systems engineering process to network design and provides clear examples of real designs that he has worked on previously which are invaluable in understanding how to be a better network designer. This course covered all the major stages of network design such as requirements gathering, high-level design and low-level design, and provides excellent documentation templates for these stages as part of the course material. I look forward to participating in the CCDE training when it is released.

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About the Instructor

Malcolm Booden, CCDE #20170037


Malcolm Booden is the founder of MNB Networks and has been working in the IT networking industry since 2003.


He holds a BSc Network Computing degree from Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland and several IT certifications from Cisco including CCNA/DA, CCNP/DP, Data Centre specialist certifications and is also one of around 400 Cisco Certified Design Experts (CCDE #20170037) globally.


Prior to starting MNB Networks, Malcolm worked in several roles in the enterprise, service provider and network integrator space and brings a plethora of knowledge to the table across LAN, WAN, Security, Wireless and DC technologies.


Malcolm prides himself on delivering quality work and leaving no stone unturned which many customers throughout the globe have benefitted from throughout his career.