Education Curriculum

FTC Educational Curriculum (F5 Training Center) The absolute power in the network market! A golden opportunity to enhance the understanding of F5 products!

FTC presents the understanding and efficient operational method of BIG-IP Platform, which is the Application Switching product among the F5-Networks products that are demonstrating the absolute power in the Application Delivery Network market, and hands over the diverse range of know-how the technological team of OPENBASE Inc. holds in order to provide the opportunity to elevate the understanding on the L7 Switching and Application Delivery in line with the growth of the Application Switching market.

FTC Established Course

Basic course on the operation and composition of F5-BIG – IP L7 Switch (3 days)

Course overview

This educational course begins with the introduction on the overall aspects of the F5 BIG-IP product groups including their functions, performances and characteristics. It is then followed by the execution of intensive education on the concepts such as the principle of Layer 4 Switching, unique Load Balancing Algorithm only of BIG-IP, SLB, FLB, IDS LB, Network Virtual Server and Transparent Virtual Server, etc. that the operator of BIG-IP must be familiar with for the purpose of enhancing the understanding of the Application Delivery. Each of the educational courses is conducted concurrently with practicum, which is the composition aimed at enhancing the level of the understanding of the students. In addition, the course for Advanced Skills including iRule, HTTP Compress, RAM Cache, SSL Acceleration and TCP Offload, etc. is included in order to enable all the students to personally set and operate the diverse range of Layer 7 Switching Features and WEB Acceleration Features that could not be realized in the existing Layer 4 Switching equipment.
Lastly, students will be able to acquire an extensive range of the methods for problem solving that can be applied to the actual operational environment including the Trouble Shooting course to cope with the diverse range of disability cases that can occur during the operation of the equipment.

Educational Curriculum

1st Day
- Introduction of F5 Networks product (overview of the entire product groups of F5)
- Understanding of Layer 4 Switching (Server Load Balancing terminologies and architecture)
- Explanations on Health Monitor (basic Layer 3~4 Health Check and Layer 7 Health Check)
- Profile (Understanding of the concepts and method of setting, and explanations on the issues to be considered at the time of composition of Profile necessary in BIG-IP)
2nd Day
- Persistence (Explanations on and practicum on the method of realization of Persistence by using a diverse range of information including IP Address, Cookie, SSL ID and MSRDP, etc.)
- NATs & SNATs (Explanations on and practicum on the diverse methods of realization of 1:1 NAT, N:1 NAT)
- iRule (Education and practicum on Intelligent Rule, which is the most powerful function of BIG-IP)
- Advanced Virtual Server (Understanding of diverse Virtual Server Types realized in BIG-IP)
3rd Day
- HTTP Profile (Understanding and method of setting of each of the options of HTTP Profile optimized for the WEB Traffic)
- One Connect (Education and practicum on the differences for each of the HTTP Versions and the TCP Offload functions that utilizes such differences)
- HTTP Compress (Practicum on the method of realizing the effect of Bandwidth reduction by compressing the Client Side WEB Traffic)
- RAM Cache (Practicum on the Caching method and monitoring method of Web Contents by using BIG-IP)
- SSL Acceleration
- Troubleshooting (Introduction to and education on the method of using BIG-IP Utility and various Applications that can be used at the time of occurrence of disability)

Recommended prerequisite course

ATC, CCNA, CCNP, Linux Master

Schedule

No of Training Course	Schedule
1st	2024-03-20 ~ 2024-03-22
2nd	2024-06-19 ~ 2024-06-21
3rd	2024-09-25 ~ 2024-09-27
4th	2024-11-20 ~ 2024-11-22

※ Textbooks and equipment for practicum are provided.
※ As we do not provide parking, please use public transportation as much as possible.

Questions

If you are not able to attend the corresponding course after having paid for the educational program,
the fees paid are valid for a year. However, there is no refund.
For any other inquiries, please contact the personnel in charge (eduinfra@openbase.co.kr).

Costs

Days	Information deposit	Account	Follow-up call
1 million Won per person (VAT excluded)	Woori Bank 119-159162-13-201	OPENBASE Inc.	02-3404-5622 Finance & Economy Team of OPENBASE Inc.