SLREN Backbone & Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop

10 Mar 2025, 08:30 → 15 Mar 2025, 17:00 Africa/Freetown

Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

 

The Sierra Leone Research and Education Network (SLREN) is working with WACREN and NSRC to develop its capacity for implementing the network and exploiting the open science infrastructure and services on offer, which will contribute to socio-economic development of Sierra Leone. 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 any organisational network infrastructure according to current best practices.

Monday, 10 March ¶

1 Registration¶

2 Formal Opening Remarks¶

Speaker: SLREN SLREN

09:30 Break & Photos

3 Introduction to the Campus Network Design & Operations Workshop¶

4 Overview of Research and Education Networks ecosystem¶

5 Layer 1, 2 and 3 Refresher¶

13:00 Lunch

6 Campus Network Cabling: Structured Cabling¶

7 Campus Network Cabling: Installation Best Practices¶

15:00 Tea Break

8 Cisco Configuration Essentials¶

9 Layer 2 Lab Setup¶

10 Summary for the Day¶

Tuesday, 11 March ¶

11 Monday Recap¶

12 Switching Architectures: Spanning Tree¶

10:00 Tea Break

13 Spanning Tree¶

14 Switching Architectures: VLANs¶

12:30 Lunch

15 VLAN Lab¶

15:30 Tea Break

16 Switching Architectures: L2 Protection Features¶

Wednesday, 12 March ¶

17 Tuesday Recap¶

18 IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing¶

10:00 Tea Break

19 Routing and Forwarding Basics¶

20 L3 Switches¶

12:30 Lunch

21 Static Routing Lab¶

15:30 Tea Break

22 Introduction to IS-IS¶

Thursday, 13 March ¶

23 Wednesday Recap¶

24 Introduction to NAT¶

25 Selecting Campus Devices¶

10:30 Tea Break

26 Introduction to Wireless¶

27 EduRoam Background¶

12:30 Lunch

28 Campus Security Overview¶

29 Introduction to Network Management¶

15:30 Tea Break

30 Workshop Survey and Classroom Q&A¶

31 Closing Ceremony¶

Friday, 14 March ¶

32 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

10:30 Tea Break

33 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

12:30 Lunch

34 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

14:30 Tea Break

35 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

Saturday, 15 March ¶

36 Bisit to Submarine cable landing site¶

12:30 Lunch

37 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

14:30 Tea Break

38 Final Closure¶