Bandwidth Management and Optimisation Training

Bandwidth Management and Optimisation Training

This will be an intense hands-on five (5) day training to teach skills required for bandwidth management and optimization at the Campus environment

Objective

The main objective of the training is to empower the various network administrators from the various institutions with skills that will enable them to effectively manage the networks of the various institutions that they represent. This will enable them to ensure the bandwidth they are been provided with is been used for academic work and not been consumed by viruses, spam, peer-to-peer traffic and other malware.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for technical staff that operates a TCP/IP network and intends to provide connectivity to both students and faculty.

Requirements

The participants are required to be conversant with Linux/Unix commands. All participants are required to submit current network diagrams for discussion during the Case Studies. Each participant is also required to bring a laptop.

Course content

This is a hands on training experience where the participants will setup a Bandwidth Management and Optimization Box using a wide variety of tools in both Unix and Linux.

The training will begin by introducing the students to the importance of network management and best campus design principles. The training will also give them skills on how to troubleshoot common campus network problems and teach them how to install and manage network monitoring tools. They will also be taught bandwidth management principles within a campus environment and how to develop and implement bandwidth policies.

Course Cost

This is a cost recovery based training and the Participants will contribute an amount to cater for their accommodation and the trainers time. This cost will cost USD...... Per Participant.

Registration

All participants will be nominated by the ICT Director/ ICT Head at the Institution . All nominations should be received by 15th July 2013

Timetable

DAY/TIME	8.00-10.00am	10.00-10.15am	10.15am-1.00pm	1.00pm-2.00pm	2.00pm-4.00pm	4.00pm-4.15pm	4.15pm-6.00pm
Monday	Introduction	Tea break	Why Network Management	Lunch	Campus Network design	Tea break	Campus Network design
Tuesday	Network management Basics	Tea break	The bandwidth Challenge	Lunch	Solving network Problems	Tea break	Case Study: Campus A and B
Wednesday	Network Monitoring tools	Tea break	Network Monitoring tools	Lunch	Network Monitoring tools	Tea break	Case Study: Campus C and D
Thursday	Network Monitoring tools	Tea break	Network Monitoring tools	Lunch	Squid: Delay Pools	Tea break	Case Study: Campus E and F
Friday	Policy development	Tea break	Policy development	Lunch	Network Monitoring tools	Tea break	Case Study: Campus G and H
Saturday	Network Monitoring tools	Tea break	Closing Ceremony	Lunch