Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome

    • Instructor Introduction

    • Course Objectives

    • Design Community Challenges

    • Course Purpose

  • 2

    Introduction to Network Design

    • Why do we need network design?

    • Who completes a network design?

    • Transition vs Transformation 1

    • Transition vs Transformation 2

    • The design mindset

    • Network designer behaviours

  • 3

    Network Designs & Documentation Types

    • Scope of Works

    • High Level Design

    • Low Level Design

    • Migration and Cutover Plans

    • Network Audits and Discovery

    • Test Plans

  • 4

    Career Path into Design

    • Stay open minded to opportunities

    • Take an IT Operations role

    • Navigate into networking

    • Network Project Delivery (LLD)

    • Network Architecture

  • 5

    Network Design Roles & Responsibilities

    • LLD Project Engineer

    • LLD Network Consultant

    • Network Architect (Telco / ISP)

    • Network Architect (Systems Integrator)

    • Network Architect (Enterprise)

    • Systems Engineer (Presales)

  • 6

    Community Design Challenges

    • Challenge 1: WAN Integration & SASE Design

Bonus material

Additional content included in this course curriculum will provide further value to your learning.

  • Community Design Challenges

    The learning outcomes in the Community Design Challenges are related to analytical thinking as a network designer & how to interpret designs to understand the architecture, before reaching conclusions & entering discussions with a customer around their requirements.

  • 2-Hour Video Content

    2 hours of video content will be provided to students which provides insight around what it is like to work in network design. We explain the different design roles along with the skills, mindset, experience and behaviours required to work in network design.

  • Network Design Associate Community Access

    Our Network Design Associate community is available for you to discuss network design career topics and proposed solutions to our mini challenges with other like-minded network & security associates and enthusiasts.

Social proof: reviews

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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Excellent Delivery

John Yuogan

Delivery is very precise and concise. Good Work

Delivery is very precise and concise. Good Work

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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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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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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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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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Great course

Ekow Mensah-Baidoo

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Great content for network engineers looking to grow

Liam O'Brien

I found this short course on the design Career path very informative, I wish I had come across this earlier in my career (currently a LLD Project engineer my...

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I found this short course on the design Career path very informative, I wish I had come across this earlier in my career (currently a LLD Project engineer myself looking to step into Architecture). It gives good insight on the types of roles along the path and typical expectations on those roles.

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Good explaination in network career path

Yen Bing Loi

5 star rating

Such a brilliant content!

Aslan Abdurahmanov

Thanks Malcolm! It really helped me to understand more and have a different sight on design part of the networks. Well Done!

Thanks Malcolm! It really helped me to understand more and have a different sight on design part of the networks. Well Done!

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