SLREN Backbone & Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop

Africa/Freetown
Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

Description

 

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.

Organised by

Dr Thomas Songu

    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m
    • 09:00 09:30
      Formal Opening Remarks 30m
      Speaker: SLREN SLREN
    • 09:30 10:00
      Break & Photos 30m
    • 10:00 11:00
      Introduction to the Campus Network Design & Operations Workshop 1h
    • 11:00 12:00
      Overview of Research and Education Networks ecosystem 1h
    • 12:00 13:00
      Layer 1, 2 and 3 Refresher 1h
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 14:30
      Campus Network Cabling: Structured Cabling 30m
    • 14:30 15:00
      Campus Network Cabling: Installation Best Practices 30m
    • 15:00 15:30
      Tea Break 30m
    • 15:30 16:00
      Cisco Configuration Essentials 30m
    • 16:00 16:30
      Layer 2 Lab Setup 30m
    • 16:30 17:00
      Summary for the Day 30m
    • 08:30 09:00
      Monday Recap 30m
    • 09:00 10:00
      Switching Architectures: Spanning Tree 1h
    • 10:00 10:30
      Tea Break 30m
    • 10:30 11:30
      Spanning Tree 1h
    • 11:30 12:30
      Switching Architectures: VLANs 1h
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:30
      VLAN Lab 2h
    • 15:30 16:00
      Tea Break 30m
    • 16:00 17:00
      Switching Architectures: L2 Protection Features 1h
    • 08:30 09:00
      Tuesday Recap 30m
    • 09:00 10:00
      IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing 1h
    • 10:00 10:30
      Tea Break 30m
    • 10:30 11:30
      Routing and Forwarding Basics 1h
    • 11:30 12:30
      L3 Switches 1h
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:30
      Static Routing Lab 2h
    • 15:30 16:00
      Tea Break 30m
    • 16:00 17:00
      Introduction to IS-IS 1h
    • 08:30 09:00
      Wednesday Recap 30m
    • 09:00 09:30
      Introduction to NAT 30m
    • 09:30 10:30
      Selecting Campus Devices 1h
    • 10:30 11:00
      Tea Break 30m
    • 11:00 11:45
      Introduction to Wireless 45m
    • 11:45 12:30
      EduRoam Background 45m
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 14:30
      Campus Security Overview 1h
    • 14:30 15:30
      Introduction to Network Management 1h
    • 15:30 16:00
      Tea Break 30m
    • 16:00 16:40
      Workshop Survey and Classroom Q&A 40m
    • 16:40 17:00
      Closing Ceremony 20m
    • 09:00 10:30
      Design of SLREN Network Backbone 1h 30m
    • 10:30 11:00
      Tea Break 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Design of SLREN Network Backbone 1h 30m
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 14:30
      Design of SLREN Network Backbone 1h
    • 14:30 15:00
      Tea Break 30m
    • 15:00 16:00
      Design of SLREN Network Backbone 1h
    • 09:00 12:30
      Bisit to Submarine cable landing site 3h 30m
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 14:30
      Design of SLREN Network Backbone 1h
    • 14:30 15:00
      Tea Break 30m
    • 15:00 16:00
      Final Closure 1h