IT Network Training Course

godinman

godinman

godinman

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Hi All,

I run a CCTV installation company, we install a lot of networked systems including wireless links, we also offer wifi installations and a few other 'IT' services.

Now I am self taught and have passed on that knowledge to my engineers, it's worked well but we're starting to find ourselves involved in more complication networks (vlans etc) and have run up against our limits, finding ourselves either 'making it work' through probably none standard practise methods or calling in outside help.

So now I'm looking for additional training for myself and our engineers, can anyone recommend a course or set of courses to follow? I've been recommended the various Mikrotik courses but don't really know what is going to cover our fairly basic requirements.

Any help appreciated. :)
 
Probably stick to the specific area of expertise you need rather than a generic network course. CBTnuggets CCNA curriculum contains videos on subnetting and vlanning which are important. Everything else is going to go a million miles out of your domain.

If VLANs are a core part of the challenge, you'll want to get yourself a network card (or MacBook) that can VLAN tag (not all network cards can do this) as it'll save you a lot of pain. You could simplify this and give the guys a noddy switch preconfigured to the various VLANs.
 
Thanks both.

Network Chuck looks like he does some good videos - certainly useful for me to learn from if we stick with internal training.

CBTnuggets sounds like it could be ideal, it seems like a good compromise between an accredited course and self-learning on youtube (which I was trying to avoid).

I suppose a mixture of the above, followed by some in house 'lab' testing should hopefully get us to the stage where we at least understand what's going on.
 
The networking sub on here is pretty good as well. My CCTV crew considered anything we did on the networks side a dark art :p Best of luck...
 
If you are starting to talk vLANs and the likes, is there some sort of MSP or IT department involved, if you're plugging stuff into their network then I would expect them to be wanting to know what's going on, certainly would be on my list of people to talk to if it were me.
 
It's more about understanding what IT guys are on about, being able to integrate on those kind of sites better and hopefully offering it more on our own installations (better security, vlan segregation etc).

Edit - also, you wouldn't believe the amount of IT "pro's" who work on smaller sites, that seem to throw all the tricks at a network and then offer zero support when we're asked to attach something to the it by the customer.
 
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