Scalable Campus Network Design & Operations

This is a technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work to teach the skills needed to design, build, operate and manage institutional network infrastructure according to current best practices. . The training will be held from July 22nd to July 26th, 2024.

Objective

After this workshop the participants will be able to design and implement a mid to large scale campus networks. This course will provide the techies with the necessary TCP/IP skills to administer a campus network.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for technical staff at the tertiary institutions that operate a TCP/IP network with international connectivity and inter-campus connectivity.

Prerequisites

1. Operational knowledge of UNIX/Linux 2. IPv4 addressing and general networking concepts 3. Day to day experience within an operational network

Technical Requirements

1. Laptop with a working wireless card 2. A modern web browser installed 3. A shell terminal or Putty (if on Windows) 4. A diagrammatic representation of the participant's institution network

Course content

Scalable Campus Network Design & Operations

1.Introduction to Campus Network Design & Operations Workshop

2.Overview of Research & Education Network ecosystem

3.Layer 1, 2 and 3 Refresher

4.Campus Network Design Principles

5.Campus Network Cabling Best Practices

6.Cabling Installation Tips

7.IPv4 & IPv6 Addressing

8.Building an Address Plan

9.Cisco Configuration Essentials

10.Switching Architectures: Spanning Tree

11.Switching Architectures: VLANs

12.Routing & Forwarding Basics

13.Layer3 Switches

14.Migrating a Campus Network from Flat to Round

15.Selecting Campus Devices

16.Introduction to Wireless

17.Introduction to NAT

18.Campus Operations Best Practices

19.Campus Security Overview

20.Campus Security Configuration

21.Introduction to Network Management & Monitoring Tools Demonstration

Competency Based Assessment

Trainers

Name Organization

Jeremiah Kioko (JK) KENET

Nyanjau Kimani (NK) KENET

Moses Ojiambo (MO) KENET

Jackline Cherotich (JC) KENET

Khamis Phitia (KP) KENET

Zeinab Mzungu (ZM) KENET

Participants

No	Institution	Name	Designation

Timetable

Day	8:00-9:30	9:30-10:00	10:00-11:00	11:00-12:00	12:00-1:00	1:00-2:00	2:00-3:00	3:00-4:30	4:30-4:50
Monday July 22	Registration & Introduction to Campus Network Design & Operations Workshop (NK) [[]]	Tea Break	Overview of Research & Education Network ecosystem -The weak link (NK)	Layer 1, 2 and 3 Refresher (KP) [[]]	Campus Network Design Principles (MO) [[]]	Lunch	Campus Network Cabling Best Practices (MO/KP) [[]]	Cabling Installation Tips (JC/KP)	Tea Break
Tuesday July 23	Recap of Day 1 [[1]]	IPv4 & IPv6 Addressing ()	Tea Break	Building an IP Address Plan [[]]	Switching Architectures: Spanning Tree (MO) [[]]	STP Lab [[]]	Lunch	Switching Architectures: VLANs (JC) [[]]	VLAN Lab [[]]	Switching Architectures: Advanced L2 (optional)	Tea Break
Wednesday July 24	Recap of Day 2	Switching Architectures: Spanning Tree (MO) [[]]	Tea Break	Campus Network Structured Cabling (MO) [[2]]	Campus Network Best practices (MO) [[]]	Activity: Campus Network Design Roundtable	Lunch	Introduction to Wireless Networks	Activity: Check Wi-Fi Link speeds and standard in use on mobile phones and laptops Wireless Network Lab(CA/JK)	Tea Break
Thursday November 30	Activity: Troubleshooting campus LAN (CA) [[3]]	Tea Break	Campus Network Diagrams Review continued (MO/CA)	Network Security [[4]] (JK)	Network Security Devices Discussion (JK)	Lunch	Campus Network Monitoring [[5]] (NK)	Lab 5: Installation of Nagios and Cacti [[6]]	Tea Break
Friday December 1	Cacti Lab Instructions [[7]]	Tea Break	Cacti Installation Guide [[8]]	Assessment	Assessment [[9]] [[10]] [[11]] [[12]]	Lunch	Survey/Feedback [[13]]	Closing Ceremony	Tea Break