Instructors:
Philip Smith, Mark Tinka

Who should attend:
This is a technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work. Open to technical staff who are operating a wide area TCP/IP base Internet Service Provider (ISP) network or Internet eXchange Point (IXP), likely with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.

Pre-requisites:
Cisco IOS Fundamentals; user level UNIX and maybe some system administration; some use of network design, preferably TCP/IP-based; knowledge of OSPF and of BGP. All attendees must have in the past completed the APRICOT ISP Routing Workshop, or demonstrate competence equivalent to the level attained by that workshop.

What you will learn:

• Techniques for design, set-up, and operation of a metropolitan, regional, or national ISP backbone network. This includes advanced BGP4 and complex network configurations.
• Techniques for the design, set-up, and operation of Internet Exchange Points.
• Techniques for multiple connections to the Internet (multihoming), including connections to IXPs, other ISPs and to Internet Transit providers.
• Techniques to achieve optimal performance and configuration from a Cisco backbone router. This includes routing scalability, network design, and configuration tips.

Technologies Covered:
Introduction to ISIS. IPv4 and IPv6. Refresher on iBGP; eBGP, BGP Scaling, BGP Multihoming Techniques, BGP Transit, BGP Best Practices, BGP Communities, Advanced IXP Design.

Each class is different and tuned to the participants requirements. If there are any specific requirements, these should be communicated to the instructors during the workshops. The instructors who teach at these workshops are among the top Internet engineers today, and between them, have a great deal of knowledge on many current technologies.