UbuntuNet Connect 2015: BGP Workshop
Dates: November 15 - 18, 2015
Location: Maputo, Mozambique
Host: UbuntuNet Alliance
Venue: VIP Grand Hotel, Av 25 de Setembro 692, Maputo
Workshop description and summary
This three 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 National Research and Education networks connecting R&E institutions to the Internet.
- IS-IS design and best practices for Service Provider networks
- BGP protocol, attributes and policy control
- 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 of organisations who are connecting to NRENs, or building or operating a wide-area NREN infrastructure, with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.
Workshop Items
Workshop requirements
This workshop is not an introduction to routing. Successful completion of a previous Routing 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 IS-IS, 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
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