• Employee
• Channel Partner / Reseller
• Customers
• Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) certification candidates
• Individuals seeking the Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) certification and those individuals targeting towards the CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional) certification
• Pre-sales and post-sales network engineers involved in the network design, planning and implementation.

•  Cisco CCNA level knowledge
•  Practical experience deploying and operating networks built with Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software
•  CCNP level knowledge of Cisco switching, as found in the Cisco SWITCH (or BCMSN) courses

• Discuss methodology in network design
• Describe how to structure and modularize the network design using the Cisco Enterprise Architecture
• Design the enterprise campus and enterprise data center modules
• Design the remote connectivity modules as needed
• Design a network addressing plan and select a suitable routing protocol for a given network design
• Evaluate security solutions for the network
• Discuss the design implications of voice transport across the network
• Discuss the design implications of wireless networking
• Describe additional resources that support configuring and implementing the network design

The Designing for Cisco Internetworks Solutions course teaches students general approaches and technologies for network design while promoting Cisco solutions in designing and implementing scalable internetworks.

With the recent release of DESGN Version 2.1, The following topics have also been added:

• New technologies was add to reflect the current state of today’s Enterprise network
• New examples and verification tasks
• Use of Cisco SAFE Network strategy to design network security
• Borderless Networks, Collaboration, and Data Center/Virtualization architectures
• Using the Virtual Switching System (VSS) in the Distribution Layer
• The Cisco Virtual Office Architecture
• More comprehensive coverage of IPv6
• Video Considerations and introduce the H.264 protocol
• CAPWAP and 802.11n support