Network Course: IP Networks, Routers and Addresses

IP Networks, Routers and Addresses is a extensive course on the fundamentals of IP networking: IP packets, IP routers and IP addressing.

This e-learning course can be completed as an individual course, or as part of CTNS, the Certified Telecommunications Network Specialist certification package, which includes eight online courses covering Broadband, Wireless, PSTN, Voice over IP, Ethernet, OSI Layers, IP networks, and MPLS networks offered by Teracom Training Institute, and certification through the Telecommunications Certification Organization, TCO.

This course is also included in the CTA, Certified Telecommunications Analyst certification package, from Teracom.

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Course Overview

This course covers OSI model Layer 3: the network layer, and so could be called "Layer 3". In particular it covers IP packet networks.

Packet networks embody two main concepts: packet switching and bandwidth on demand.

First, we recap channelized TDM with its limitations, then we explain statistical TDM which is bandwidth on demand.

Next, we explain how networks are implemented by routers using packet switching, which is relaying the packets between circuits, and how routers serve as a point of control to implement network security. We introduce the term Customer Edge, and explain the content and basic structure of a routing table.

Then we cover the many facets of IP addressing which are needed to perform packet switching: IPv4 address classes, static vs. dynamic addresses, dotted decimal notation, public vs. private addresses, DHCP, Network Address Translation, and end with an overview of IPv6 address allocation and assignment.


Course Lessons

  1. Introduction
  2. Channelized Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) Review
    Traditional TDM – why it is inefficient.
  3. Bandwidth-on-Demand: Statistical Time-Division Multiplexing
    Opportunistic capacity and overbooking.
  4. Private Networks: Bandwidth on Demand + Routing
    A simple framework for learning about routers and bandwidth on demand.
  5. Routers
    Routers and routing tables. Packet filtering and forwarding. Customer Edge.
  6. IPv4 Addresses
    Dotted-decimal notation and address classes.
  7. DHCP
    How dynamic and static addresses are assigned using DHCP.
  8. Private and Public IPv4 Addresses
    Why private addresses are used. How to obtain public addresses.
  9. Network Address Translation
    How NAT connects in-building private IPv4 addressing to public addresses on the Internet
  10. IPv6 Overview
    IPv6 introduction. What's new. The improvements from IPv4 in the IPv6 packet format.
  11. Address Allocation and Assignment for IPv6
    Types of IPv6 addresses, the registries and allocation to ISPs. Assignment of subnets to end-users.

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