BGP Peering Workshop

*** THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED ***

Date:                              19 – 21 Aug 2020
Time:                              9:00 – 17:30
Venue:                            Carlton Hotel Bangkok Sukhumvit, Thailand
Maximum Class Size:     28 participants, working in groups.

Course Fee:                   

Standard: 30, 000 THB
Early Bird: 20,000 THB

 

Early-bird registration fees must be paid before or on April 20 where as Standard registration fees must be paid before or on May 20 by cheque or wire transfer payment. 

Group rate: please contact sec@interlab.ait.ac.th

Local Information: Accommodation, Local Transportation, Medical Care, and Visa

Instructors:
Philip Smith, NSRC
Viraphan Samadi, intERLab, AIT
Kittinan Sriprasert, BKNIX

Course Duration : 3 days

Maximum Class Size:  The workshop can accommodate up to 28 participants.

Workshop description and summary:
This is a technical workshop, made up of lecture and hands-on lab work to teach the IS-IS and BGP skills required for the configuration and operation of large scale networks that make up the Internet.

Workshop topics :

  • Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
  • IS-IS design and best practices for Service Provider networks
  • BGP protocol, attributes and policy control
  • BGP scalability (including Route Reflectors and Communities)
  • BGP Best Practices, including Aggregation
  • BGP multihoming techniques (redundancy and load balancing)
  • BGP Communities as used by Network Operators
  • Peering Best Practices

Workshop Schedule:

Day 1
Session 1  Introduction to the BGP Peering Workshop
Session 2  IS-IS Recap
Session 3  Lab Setup
Session 4  IS-IS (LAB)
Session 5  BGP Recap
Session 6  iBGP (LAB)
Session 7  eBGP with Transit (LAB)
Session 8  BGP Multihoming (Part 1)

Day 2
Session 1  BGP Multihoming (Part 2)
Session 2  Private Peer (LAB)
Session 3  IXP Peering (LAB)
Session 4  The Value of Peering
Session 5  Peering Policies (LAB)
Session 6  IXP Bilateral (LAB)
Session 7  BGP Best Practices

Day 3
Session 1  BGP Communities
Session 2  BGP Communities (LAB)
Session 3  BGP Case Studies
Session 4  Traffic Engineering over two links to an IX (LAB)
Session 5  Traffic Engineering between two IXes (LAB)
Session 6  Troubleshooting BGP
Session 7  Configuring Dynamips
Q&A and Closing

 

Target Audience:
Technical staff who are now building or operating a wide area service provider network with international and/or multi-provider connectivity, or considering participation at an Internet Exchange point, or considering deploying IPv6 across their infrastructure and to their end users.

Workshop requirements :
It is assumed that the workshop participants are 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.

This workshop is not an introduction. Participants are expected to have already successfully completed previous Routing Workshops or have demonstrable equivalent experience.

The lab exercises use Cisco IOS configuration syntax.

Participants are required to bring laptops.

 

Biography of Instructors

Philip Smith 
Philip Smith has been working in the Internet industry since the early 1990s after catching the Internet bug in the mid 1980s while at University. He runs his own consulting company, PFS Internet Development.

Philip spends some of his time working for the Network Startup Resource Centre as a Senior Network Engineer and Training Coordinator, assisting with Network Operations Groups coordination, and providing network design assistance and training around the Pacific, South and South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa. .

He previously worked at APNIC as Learning and Development Director, where his team’s responsibilities ranged from Training, APNIC Conferences and Events, Network Operations Group support, Technical Programmes such as IPv6 Deployment, Internet Exchange Points, and Rootname Server deployments, and the Information Society Innovation Fund grants programme. .

Before APNIC, he was a member of the Internet Infrastructure Group in CTO Consulting Engineering of Cisco Systems for more than thirteen years. He also served for 3 years on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society. .

Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (incorporated into UUNET, and now part of Verizon’s global ISP business), the UK’s first commercial ISP, where he was Head of Network Engineering. As is common with startups in a rapidly growing marketplace, Philip gained deep experience in all of the engineering roles in an ISP, from support engineer, network operations, engineering, and development, before assuming responsibility for the entire UK network operation. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK, and he helped establish the LINX Internet Exchange Point in London and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Europe.

Viraphan Samadi , Training Manager
obtained his Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand in 1999. At the same time he was working as IT officer at the same institute as a part time. He has over 18 years experience in internet and campus networking. Currently he work as training manger at intERLab/AIT. He also a team leader for IT service unit that look after IT related work at the institute.

 

REGISTRATION

*** THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED ***

Certificate of participation, training materials, lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please note that the places are limited and the registration will be on a “first come – first served” basis. If you have any further queries, please contact Mr. Viraphan Samadi email: training at interlab.ait.ac.th.

 

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