CLCOR - Implementing and Operating Cisco Collaboration Core Technologies

The Implementing and Operating Cisco Collaboration Core Technologies (CLCOR) training provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy, configure, and troubleshoot core collaboration and networking technologies. Topics include infrastructure design protocols, codecs, and endpoints, Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS®) XE gateway and media resources, call control, and Quality of Service (QoS).

This training prepares you for the 350-801 CLCOR v1.1 exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Collaboration Core certification and satisfy the core exam requirements for the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Collaboration and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Collaboration certifications. Earn 64 CE credits towards recertification

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the Cisco Collaboration solutions architecture
• Compare the IP Phone signaling protocols of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H323, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), and Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP)
• Integrate and troubleshoot Cisco Unified Communications Manager with LDAP for user synchronization and user authentication
• Implement Cisco Unified Communications Manager provisioning features
• Describe the different codecs and how they are used to transform analogue voice into digital streams
• Describe a dial plan, and explain call routing in Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Implement Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) access using MGCP gateways
• Implement a Cisco gateway for PSTN access
• Configure calling privileges in Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Implement toll fraud prevention
• Implement globalized call routing within a Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster
• Implement and troubleshoot media resources in Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Describe Cisco Instant Messaging and Presence, including call flows and protocols
• Describe and configure endpoints and commonly required features
• Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Unity Connection integration
• Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Unity Connection call handlers
• Describe how Mobile Remote Access (MRA) is used to allow endpoints to work from outside the company
• Analyze traffic patterns and quality issues in converged IP networks supporting voice, video, and data traffic
• Define QoS and its models
• Implement classification and marking
• Configure classification and marking options on Cisco Catalyst® switches

There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:

• Working knowledge of fundamental terms of computer networking, including LANs, WANs, switching, and routing
• Basics of digital interfaces, Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTNs), and Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Fundamental knowledge of converged voice and data networks and Cisco Unified Communications Manager deployment

These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:

• Understanding Cisco Collaboration Foundations (CLFNDU)

• Students preparing to take the CCNP Collaboration certification
• Network Administrators
• Network Engineers
• Systems Engineers