In this intense, hands-on course, you will learn how to plan, configure, operate, and maintain a WAVE environment. Through real-world examples and labs, you will learn how to apply best practices to deployed WAVE environments. You will spend 85% of your time setting up a WAVE environment to meet real-world scenario requirements. Labs reinforce the concepts and provide real-world practice.

What You'll Learn

• Fundamentals of planning a WAVE environment
• Building blocks, concepts, and theory to making a WAVE environment
• Manage a WAVE environment
• Install, operate, and maintain a WAVE environment
• Back up and restore a WAVE environment
• Functionality of a WAVE domain, publish, and subscribe environment
• Functionality of WAVE zones and configuration

Who Needs to Attend

Network engineers, managers, system administrators, and others interested in expanding their knowledge of designing or implementing WAVE in an enterprise network

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of VoIP, Multicast, Microsoft Server, Cisco IOS, and voice is required

Follow-On Courses

Courses covering Server 2003, Cisco CallManager Express or Unified Communications Express, QoS, or CCVP

• QOS - Implementing Cisco Quality of Service

Course Outline

Monday (afternoon)

• WAVE training introduction
• Building blocks of a WAVE environment
• Management of a WAVE environment
• Deployment guidelines

Tuesday

• Lab 1
  • Lab 1a: Install management server
  • Lab 1b: Create user profiles
  • Lab 1c: Add three users
  • Lab 1d: Add a WAVE channel
  • Lab 1e: Install WAVE web communicator and WAVE desktop communicator
• Lab 2
  • Lab 2a: Add new users and a WAVE channel
  • Lab 2b: Add channel groups
  • Lab 2c: Install media server
  • Lab 2d: Use online dispatch console
  • Lab 2e: Create a global chat channel
  • Lab 2f: Create a multicast trunks
  • Lab 2g: Create two new channels
  • Lab 2h: Create point-to-point trunks

Wednesday

• LMR-Radio overview
• Gateway configurations
• Lab 3
  • Lab 3a: Add LMR channels for push-to-talk (PTT), E&M
  • Lab 3b: Add recordings
  • Lab 3c: Retrans-dispatch console
  • Lab 3d: Multicast trunks for site sharing
  • Lab 3e: Point-to-point trunk for site sharing
  • Lab 3f: Add LMR trunk and channel

Thursday

• Lab 4
  • Lab 4a: Add session groups
  • Lab 4b: Meet-me
  • Lab 4c: Group call
  • Lab 4d: Channel access
  • Lab 4e: Advanced, dial into radio
  • Lab 4f: Cisco IP Phone clients-services
  • Lab 4g: Save and restore databases
• WAVE domains
• Lab 5a: WAVE domains, publish and subscribe channels
• W AVE Zones
• Lab 5b: Zones

Friday (morning)

• Final course exercise
• Recap
• User configuration help and questions

Labs

1. Install a WAVE management server

2. Create user profiles

3. Add users

4. Create channels

5. Use and install the web and desktop communicators

6. Add channel groups

7. Install WAVE media server

8. Create an online dispatch

9. Create a multicast trunk channel

10. Create a point-to-point trunk channel

11. Configure a radio channel

12. Record channels

13. Retransmit or bridge radios

14. Share radios

15. Add session groups

16. Add meet-me sessions

17. Add group call sessions

18. Add channel access sessions

19. Dial into a radio session

20. Use Cisco IP Phone client

21. Save and restore system configurations

22. Configure WAVE domain publisher and subscriber channels

23. Set up Zones

24. Final course exercise