BGP and Peering Workshop
Accra Marriot Hotel
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Workshop on BGP configuration and operation for NREN enginers with best current practices for peering with the WACREN network
Goal
A 3-day BGP configuration and operation hands-on training workshop on building resilient NRENs with ISIS/BGP routing and peering with WACREN network.
Participants will learn REN architecture (Layer 2 and Layer3), basic IS-IS and BGP routing and best practices for traffic engineering and peering.
Participants will learn about WACREN routing policy, Network practices and services for a better interconnection and collaboration in building the Regional REN.
Target
Network/systems administrators and engineers from campus networks and NRENs.
Topics
This workshop will cover:
- NREN and RREN Network design
- IGP design and best practices for networks operators
- BGP protocol, filtering and policy control
- BGP multihoming techniques
- Peering Best Practices
Pre-requisites
- Understanding of networking concepts
- Experience with IP routing (IGP and BGP)
- Familiarity with Cisco IOS configuration syntax.
- Laptop with wireless capability
- Documentation on participants network architecture, configurations and statistics
Agenda
Day 1
- Introduction to REN
- IGP refresher
- Introduction to BGP and BGP attributes
Day 2
- BGP policies
- BGP scaling Techniques
- BGP multihoming
- BGP communities
- BGP Traffic Engineering
Day3
- WACREN routing policy, Network practices and Services
- Cases studies: WACREN/NRENs Interconnection (GARNET, NGREN, TogoRER, FasoREN, MaliREN,RITER…)
Language
English with interactions in French
Venue
Accra Marriott Hotel