Routing Workshop
- Detailed Agenda (includes links to presentations and schedule)
Workshop description and summary
This four and a half day workshop is a mix of lectures and hands-on lab work to teach the skills required for the configuration and operation of large-scale networks that make up the Internet.
- IS-IS design and best practices for Service Provider networks
- BGP protocol, attributes and policy control
- BGP scalability (including Route Reflectors and Communities)
- BGP Best Practices, including Aggregation
- BGP multihoming techniques (redundancy and load balancing)
- BGP Communities as used by Network Operators
- ISP Best Practices
- Peering Best Practices
Target audience
Technical staff who are now building or operating an Internet network or Internet Exchange Point, with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.
Workshop requirements
This workshop is not an introduction to routing. Successful completion of Introduction to Routing workshops or similar training is recommended.
Workshop participants need to be proficient with a router command line interface, have a basic understanding of routing protocols, such as static routing and OSPF.
The labs use Cisco IOS configuration syntax.
Some user-level Unix experience would be advantageous
All participants will need to bring a laptop with WiFi? access. A tablet cannot be used for this workshop. The laptop will be used to access the lab network as well as the course materials on the workshop wiki. Participants will work in pairs on the lab exercises.
Class Size
The Workshop can accommodate up to 28 participants, working in groups of two.
Trainers
- Philip Smith (NSRC)
- Patrick Okui (NSRC)
- Khoudia Gueye SY (NSRC)
- Christian Muhirwa (BSC)
- Jean Jacques Nshogoza Rutinywa (MTN Rwanda)