MENOG 15: Advanced Routing Workshop

Dates: March 28 - 31, 2015
Location: Dubai, UAE
Host: ​UAE Telecommunication Regulatory Authority
Venue: ​Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Al Waheeda street – Al Memzar, Dubai

Workshop description and summary

This four-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.

• ISIS 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

• Detailed Agenda (includes links to presentations and schedule)

Target audience

Technical staff who are now building or operating a wide-area service provider 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 a previous MENOG Routing or IPv6 workshop or similar training is recommended.

Workshop participants need to be proficient with a router command line interface, have a good understanding of OSPF or ISIS, as well as experience with using BGP in an operational network.

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)
• Anton Berezin ​(NSRC)

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