5G/Airscale Training:

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I have received training with the Airscale Migration Project.  I took the one week course with Armand Nouri and scored a 100 on his final exam.  The course included Airscale hardware configuration, software upgrades and site documentation procedures.  I have taken all of the 5G Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 training on the EDU Cornerstone LMS online training.  I have a working knowledge of Nokia's 5G end-to-end solution with introductions to Airframe, 5G MIMO radios/antenna arrays, OpenStack, Cloud Services, the introduction of IoT as part of the 5G infrastructure and the initial plan for implementing 5G using existing legacy hardware and upgraded 4G systems. This consists of over 150 hours of online training and study.

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CCNA Training:

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After being an Instructor for Nokia ION IP products I decided to continue my interest in IP.  I completed 4 CCNA courses from one the most highly acclaimed Cisco training centers in North Texas.  The instructors at the TCC NE Campus had previously worked for Cisco and were very knowledgeable and their expectations were very high.  The lab was equipped with 4 rows with 10 racks of Cisco routers and switches.  Each rack had 3 routers and 3 switches.  I completed my training and received a Degree of Certificate of Completion for Cisco Support.  My daily school work scores were in the 90's.  The most challenging part of the instruction was the lab portion.  I wasn't able to get as much hands-on as full-time students.  I was already working a 40 hour per week job, have a full time family and the school work was quite demanding.  Even though I was able to perform the specific lab requirements scoring in the 90's on the pre-exam case-study tasks, I found it challenging to be able to type the commands quickly enough to get a high grade on the final hands-on exams.  Even though, I scored high enough to have a final GPA of 3.0, I don't feel that I performed to the highest of my ability. My initial goal was to just receive training on CCNA topics.  However, with a bit of review study I would be ready to pass the CCNA certification exams.

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The TCC CCNA courseware consisted of (anyone who has studied Cisco would know these):

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OSI/TCP Models, Cables, Routers, Switches, IPv4, VLSM, IPv6, VLANs, DTP/VTP, CDP/LLDP, Switch port Security, Routing Protocols: Classful/Classless, Static routes, RIP, DHCP, NTP, DNS, Access Control Lists (ACL), ACL Masks, ACL for telnet and SSH, ACL Logging, NAT, Switch/Router Passwords and Security, STP, RSTP, Extended VLANs, Port aggregation Protocol, Link Aggregation Protocol (LAG), EtherChannel, EtherChannel Load-Distribution Methods, Access Layer Threat Mitigation Techniques, Switched Virtual Interfaces, EIGRP, DUAL, Equal/Unequal Cost Loading, EIGRPv6, OSPF, OSPFv3, Link State Database, WANs, LANs, DSLAM, WAP, WiFi, WiMAX, VPN, ARP, NHRP, TDM, Packet Switched Networks, MPLS, PPPoE, PPP, PPP CHAP, LCP, GRE Tunnels, BGP, AS numbers, eBGP, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, Virtualization, HSRP, QoS Concepts, RSVP, IPv6 Access Control Lists, IP SLA, Wire Shark, SNMP, SPAN, AAA, SDN, OpenStack, Optiview XG Network Analysis Tablet, OTDRs, ADSL, RADIUS Authenticator, TACACS+, ISDN BRI.