Detailed Agenda

Summary agenda is available here.

SUNDAY

Afternoon (3-5pm)
Layer 2 and 3 Review (Brian Candler / Hervey Allen)

MONDAY

Morning
Workshop Welcome and Logistics
National Research and Education Network Models (Dale Smith)

• What are models for National Research and Education Networks around the world?
• How might these models relate to Africa in general and Nigeria specifically?

Campus Network Design Best Practices (Dale Smith)

• Overall strategies to build networks that provide
  • Reliability
  • Resiliency
  • Manageability
  • Scalability
  • Layering
• Hierarchical design building blocks
  • Build star networks
  • Separate core and edge functions
  • Develop and use standard building blocks
  • Have a strategy that allows incremental growth

IP Address Planning (Dale Smith)

• Campus network IP address planning
• NREN IP address planning

Physical Cabling (Dale Smith)

• Structured cabling systems for campuses
• Unshielded twisted pair
  • category 5/5e/6/6A - which one to install
• Fiber Optic Systems
  • Physics of Fiber Optic Cable
  • Cable types
  • Services available for different types of fiber
• Review of campus cabling standard document

Class Exercise: Fiber Cost Analysis

Afternoon
Advanced Fiber Optic Topics (Ron Milford)

• Wave Division Multiplexing concepts
• Factors limiting bandwidth (Dispersion)
  • Chromatic Dispersion (CD)
  • Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD)
• Amplification and regeneration
• Notes and lessons learned from building dark-fiber based National Network

How to Document your Network and Prepare Network Diagrams (Dale Smith)

Participant Presentations of their Current Campus Networks

• Roundtable discussion and analysis of various university network diagrams
  • Obafemi Awolowo University
  • University of Ibadan
  • University of Jos

TUESDAY

Morning
In-building Network Design (TBD)

• Switch versus Hub versus Router
• Switching Architectures (star topologies - aggregation switch serves edge switch)
• Virtual LANs (VLANs)
  • Increases complexity
  • Not necessarily a security mechanism. Don't confuse VLANs with host or data base security
  • Don't build VLAN spaghetti
  • Examples of where we recommend VLANs
  • Technology and practical hints

+ Tagging and untagged + Trunking + Q in Q

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
  • 802.d
  • 802.1w
  • 802.1s
• Selecting appropriate switches
  • class="lroman"> Must be managed
  • SNMP, SSH, access control techniques
• Fault Tolerance
  • Port bundling
  • Spanning tree (using loops to your advantage)
• Network Management
• Switching and security considerations
  • Rogue DHCP server prevention

+ How does it work + 2. Uplink/downlink configuration

• Dynamic ARP inspection
• 802.1x/network access control

Afternoon
Lab exercises (TBD) Lab appendix

• 4-6 groups with 5 or 6 switches per group
• build layer 2 network consisting of aggregation switch and edge switches
• Configure spanning tree across fabric
  • What kind of spanning tree to configure?
  • How to make different types interoperate
• Configure Rogue DHCP prevention
• Add 2nd aggregation switch to provide redundancy
  • Why did that happen?
• Growing your network
  • Use aggregation
  • If you can't...
• VLANs
  • Introducing and distributing VLANs

WEDNESDAY

Morning
Campus Routing Infrastructure (TBD)

• Routing Architectures
• Where to route?
• High Availability and Fast Convergence

Campus Routing Protocols (TBD)

• Interior Routing Protocols (IGP)
• OSPF
  • Exterior Routing Protocols (EGP)
  • Routing Protocols and security considerations

Afternoon
Labs

• Configure router to serve both VLANs on your Layer 2 network
• Configure your router to have routes to your neighbors
• Dynamic versus static
• Configure OSPF
• Build dual core routed network
• Configure First Hop redundancy with HSRP

THURSDAY

Morning
Border Network Functions

• Border Router
  • Border Routing functions
  • Routing Protocols
  • Routing Policy definitions
• Security
  • ACLs
• NAT

Afternoon
Labs

• BGP Lab

FRIDAY

BGP Lab

• Complete BGP lab sessions
• Ingress/Egress Filtering

Q&A session
Network Design Session

• Plan regional clusters
• Discuss strategies for interconnecting regional clusters

Certificates

END OF WORKSHOP