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 ¶

08:30 → 09:00 Registration¶

09:00 → 09:30 Formal Opening Remarks¶

Speaker: SLREN SLREN

09:30 → 10:00 Break & Photos

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction to the Campus Network Design & Operations Workshop¶

11:00 → 12:00 Overview of Research and Education Networks ecosystem¶

12:00 → 13:00 Layer 1, 2 and 3 Refresher¶

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Campus Network Cabling: Structured Cabling¶

14:30 → 15:00 Campus Network Cabling: Installation Best Practices¶

15:00 → 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 → 16:00 Cisco Configuration Essentials¶

16:00 → 16:30 Layer 2 Lab Setup¶

16:30 → 17:00 Summary for the Day¶

Tuesday, 11 March ¶

08:30 → 09:00 Monday Recap¶

09:00 → 10:00 Switching Architectures: Spanning Tree¶

10:00 → 10:30 Tea Break

10:30 → 11:30 Spanning Tree¶

11:30 → 12:30 Switching Architectures: VLANs¶

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 VLAN Lab¶

15:30 → 16:00 Tea Break

16:00 → 17:00 Switching Architectures: L2 Protection Features¶

Wednesday, 12 March ¶

08:30 → 09:00 Tuesday Recap¶

09:00 → 10:00 IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing¶

10:00 → 10:30 Tea Break

10:30 → 11:30 Routing and Forwarding Basics¶

11:30 → 12:30 L3 Switches¶

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Static Routing Lab¶

15:30 → 16:00 Tea Break

16:00 → 17:00 Introduction to IS-IS¶

Thursday, 13 March ¶

08:30 → 09:00 Wednesday Recap¶

09:00 → 09:30 Introduction to NAT¶

09:30 → 10:30 Selecting Campus Devices¶

10:30 → 11:00 Tea Break

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Wireless¶

11:45 → 12:30 EduRoam Background¶

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Campus Security Overview¶

14:30 → 15:30 Introduction to Network Management¶

15:30 → 16:00 Tea Break

16:00 → 16:40 Workshop Survey and Classroom Q&A¶

16:40 → 17:00 Closing Ceremony¶

Friday, 14 March ¶

09:00 → 10:30 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

10:30 → 11:00 Tea Break

11:00 → 12:30 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

14:30 → 15:00 Tea Break

15:00 → 16:00 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

Saturday, 15 March ¶

09:00 → 12:30 Bisit to Submarine cable landing site¶

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Design of SLREN Network Backbone¶

14:30 → 15:00 Tea Break

15:00 → 16:00 Final Closure¶