This module introduces students to commercial secure converged access solutions and WAN connection types. It covers:
- Broadband Access Technologies: xDSL, Cable modems, DOCSIS
- Site-to-site VPN
- Static and Default Routing: Use and configuration of static and default routes
- Frame Relay and Queuing
- Network Address Translation: Configuring NAT static and dynamic, Inside global address overloading
- Access-Control: Security solutions, Understanding and configuring AAA
- Frame-mode MPLS implementation and MPLS VPNs

A written examination, length 2 hours, weighted at 50% (Learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3).
A practical exam, length 1 hour (not in examination conditions), weighted at 50% (Learning outcome 4).

12 hours lectures plus 24 hours labs / tutorial
Self-managed learning using on-line material
Weekly one hour lecture to supplement on-line material
On-line multiple choice tests to give formative feedback
Lab sessions every week to gain practical networking experience and re-enforce theory
Investigation using Web
(1:n)1 (1:20)2

Cisco Networking Academy Program: CCNP2 on-line course material, Cisco Systems Inc. hosted by Staffordshire University

CCNP: Complete Study Guide (642-801, 642-811, 642-821, 642-831) by Wade Edwards et al., Sybex, May 2005, ISBN: 0782144217

CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide by Brian Morgan and Neil Lovering, Cisco Press, 3 edition, July 2007, ISBN: 158720150X

To have completed CE00126-1 (Introduction to Networking with LANs and WANs) and/or study of modules containing CCNA content or equivalent or valid CCNA qualification.

- Internet
- Library
- Windows workstations
- Networking equipment in University labs

Additionally, for CISCO Academies only
- On-line learning material provided by CISCO Inc.
- CISCO Networking Academy programme assessment server
- Laboratory exercise sheets provided by course instructor

NOTE
Instructors teaching this module who use the CISCO material must have completed a CCNP2 instructor training course of the CNAP programme