Scalable Campus Networks

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This will be an intense hands-on five (5) day training to teach skills required for the configuration and operation of large scale campus networks. The training will be held from October 27-31, 2014.

Objective

After this training the participants will be able to design and implement a large scale campus network. 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 that operates a TCP/IP network with international connectivity and inter-campus connectivity.

Pre-requisites

1. IPv4 addressing and general network concepts 2. Knowledge of UNIX and/or Linux 3. Three Years’ Experience as Network Administrators / IP Network Engineers 4. Target Group: Network Administrator/engineers, ICT infrastructure managers and Systems Administrators

Course content

The course is divided into two; Campus networks, Scalable networks

Campus Networks

Campus Network design principles & Best Practices Campus Networks Design.

IP address routing & management(addressing, subnetting)

Campus Network Physical cable Infrastructure

Hierarchical Design

Scalable Networks

Cisco switch configuration basics

HP configuration essentials

Switching Architecture -STP

Introduction to IEEE 802.1q (VLANS)

VPNs

Switch troubleshooting

Campus Network monitoring

Cyber Security

Research Infrastructure

Items Required

Each Participant is to bring a laptop with wireless connectivity. Each participant is to submit the campus network diagram

Trainers

Name Organization

Martin Njau (MN) KENET

Joan Masai (JM) KENET

Cornelius Achiki(CA) KENET

Judah Opuck (JO) KENET

Michelle Opiyo (MO) KENET

Hillary Cheserek(HC) KENET

Ronald Osure (RO) KENET

Timetable

Day 9.00-10.30 10.30-10.50 10.50-13.00 1300-1400 1400-1600 1600-1620 1620-1800
Monday October 27 Welcome& Registration Layers 1/2/3 Refresher [[1]](JM) Tea Break Cisco configuration essentials HP Configuration essentials [[2] (JM) Lunch Switching architectures (Layer 2) (HC) Tea Break Layer2 Lab [[3]] (HC/JO/CA/MO/JM)

Cacti exercise [4] Nagios+nconf exercise [5] Smokeping exercise [6] webmin [7] BHM/MN

Tuesday October 28 Introduction to VLANS [[8]] (HC) Tea Break VLANs Lab [[9]] Lunch IP routing (addressing, subnetting, OSPF, BGP) (JO) Tea Break IP routing Lab

Introduction to routing [[10]] Introduction to OSPF [[11]] Introduction to BGP [[12]] Layer 3 static lab [[13]] OSPF Lab [[14]]

Wednesday October 29 VPNs (MO) Tea Break Campus Network Design principles and best practices (CA) Lunch Campus Network Structured Cabling

Campus Network Cabling [[15]] Fiber Splicing Exercise [[16]] Fiber Splicing Exercise Answers [[17]] Cable Systems Specifications [[18]] (JO)

Tea Break Campus Network Designs Round-table (JO/CA)
Thursday October 30 Intro to Net Mgmt and SNMP (MN) Tea Break Network Monitoring tools: Nagios , Cacti [[19]] (MN) Lunch LAN Network monitoring lab: basic nagios, cacti, webmin (MN) Tea Break Troubleshooting Campus LAN (MN)
Friday October 31 Research Infrastructure (RO) Tea Break Cyber Security (RO) Lunch Closing Ceremony