MONDAY

Morning
Introduction to Campus Network Design (Dale Smith): [PDF | PowerPoint (16MB)]
      - What are we trying to solve?
      - Network design goals
              * Reliability
              * Resiliency
              * Manageability
              * Scalability
              * Layering
      - Complexity versus simplicity
              * Difficult balance between growth, capacity, resilience versus simplicity
      - 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
      - Network addressing strategies
              * NAT or not
              * Need to be able to aggregate
      - Quality of Service (QoS)
              * Are you going to provide preferential handling of some types of traffic? Can get very complex.
              * Only useful where you develop queues.
              * Campus networks: probably not. Overprovision bandwidth.
      - Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
              * Can be very complex, but that isn't what we mean
              * Almost a mission statement

Physical Cabling: [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
      - Fiber Optic Systems
              * Physics of Fiber Optic Cable
              * Cable types

Afternoon
Fiber termination lab (Jeff Hite): [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
Tour of campus cable plant  (Dale Smith)


TUESDAY

Morning
In-building Network Design (Carlos Vicente): [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
      - 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 (Carlos Vicente): [PDF | OpenOffice | MS Word]
Lab appendix: [text]
     - 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
Core Network Design (José Domínguez): [PDF]
     - Routing Architectures
           * Where to route?
     - High Availability and Fast Convergence
     - Campus Routing Protocols [PDF]
           * Interior Routing Protocols (IGP)
                 + OSPF
           * Exterior Routing Protocols (EGP)
     - Routing Protocols and security considerations

Afternoon
Lab exercises (José Domínguez): [PDF]
     - Configure router to serve both VLANs on your Layer 2 network
           * Configure your router to have routes to your neighbors
                 + Dynamic versus static
     - Build dual core routed network

References: Cisco IOS Versions: [PDF]
            Common Ports: [PDF]
            First Hop Redundancy: [PDF]
            IP Access Lists: [PDF]
            IPv6: [PDF]
            Netmasks: [PDF]
            OSPF: [PDF]
            Physical Terminations: [PDF]
            Spanning Tree: [PDF]
            Subnetting: [PDF]
            VLANs: [PDF]


THURSDAY

Morning
Border Network Functions [PDF]
     - Border Router
           * Border Routing functions
           * Routing Protocols
           * Routing Policy definitions
     - Security
           * ACLs
     - NAT

Afternoon
Lab Exercise
     - BGP Lab: [PDF]
BGP Reference: [PDF]


FRIDAY

Morning
Network Management (Hervey Allen): [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
     - Overview:
          * The big picture
          * The NOC (Network Operations Center)
          * Types of tools
Nagios: [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
Smokeping: [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
     - Exercises: [html]
Cacti: [PDF]

NETwork DOcumentation Tool (Netdot) (Carlos Vicente)
     - Documenting your network
     - Overview presentation
     - Demo of Netdot

Afternoon
Network Engineering Round Table: Review of participants' current campus
networks and strategic planning for next generation developments
     - Presenters:

          KENYA 
          Kevin G. Chege, Kenya Education Network (KENET): [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
          John Gichuhi Mwangi, Jomo Kenyatta University: [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
          John Walubengo, Multi-Media University (Kenya): [PDF | OpenOffice | MS Word]
               * (KCCT Wireless Diagram: [PDF]

          MALAWI
          Daurice Kanjeza Nyirongo, Mzuzu University (Malawi): [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]
          Anthony Muyepa-Phiri, College of Medicine, Univ. of Malawi:  [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]

          GHANA
          Benjamin Eshun, Ghana Academic and Research Network (GARNET): [PDF | OpenOffice | PowerPoint]

          NEPAL
          Kishor Panth, Nepali NREN:  [PDF]