Foundation Level NREN Technical Training

  • An Introduction to LAN and WAN technologies

    • To include the fundamentals of Ethernet, ISDN, ATM, PDH and SONET/SDH paying particular attention to how they are used to build IP networks.

  • Introduction to the Internet Protocol suite

    • To include a review of the structure of the IP (v4) packet, common link-layer encapsulation schemes, IP addressing, ICMP, TCP, UDP.

  • IP Network Monitoring I

    • Using SNMP polling, MIBs and open source-tools like MRTG, Cricket, etc to display traffic statistics.

    Foundation Level NREN Technical Training

    • An Introduction to LAN and WAN technologies

      • To include the fundamentals of Ethernet, ISDN, ATM, PDH and SONET/SDH paying particular attention to how they are used to build IP networks.

    • Introduction to the Internet Protocol suite

      • To include a review of the structure of the IP (v4) packet, common link-layer encapsulation schemes, IP addressing, ICMP, TCP, UDP.

    • IP Network Monitoring I

      • Using SNMP polling, MIBs and open source-tools like MRTG, Cricket, etc to display traffic statistics.

    • Internet Services

      • DNS (fundamentals, configuration and operation), FTP, telnet, e-mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP).

    Intermediate Level NREN Technical Training

    • Interior Routing Protocols

      • Introduction to OSPF and IS-IS.

    • Exterior Routing Protocols

      • Concentrating on BGPv4 and its use in Internet Routing (including the notion of Autonomous Systems and the use of Routing Registries).

    • Multicast

      • Fundamentals of multicasting, terminology, addressing, IGMP, PIM, multicast extensions to BGP, MSDP, SSM, common multicast-enabled applications.

    • IP Network Monitoring II

      • Alarms, SNMP traps, syslog, Netflow statistics, network performance monitoring (e.g. RIPE TTM boxes / AMPlets from NLANR).

    Advanced Level NREN Technical Training

    • Security

      • Establishing a CERT, configuring and using IDS & Firewalls, security evaluation techniques, NATs, VPN technologies, etc.

    • IP Quality of Service

      • DiffServ, Premium IP, less than best efforts, etc.

    • IPv6
    • MPLS
    • Optical Networking

      • Transmission in optical fibre (types of fibre, light sources, attenuation, dispersion), WDM transmission systems, optical ADMs and cross-connects, IP/WDM, GMPLS, OBGP.