Foundation Level NREN Technical Training
- An Introduction to LAN and WAN technologies
- Introduction to the Internet Protocol suite
- IP Network Monitoring I
- An Introduction to LAN and WAN technologies
- Introduction to the Internet Protocol suite
- IP Network Monitoring I
- Internet Services
- Interior Routing Protocols
- Exterior Routing Protocols
- Multicast
- IP Network Monitoring II
- Security
- IP Quality of Service
- IPv6
- MPLS
- Optical Networking
To include the fundamentals of Ethernet, ISDN, ATM, PDH and SONET/SDH paying particular attention to how they are used to build IP networks.
To include a review of the structure of the IP (v4) packet, common link-layer encapsulation schemes, IP addressing, ICMP, TCP, UDP.
Using SNMP polling, MIBs and open source-tools like MRTG, Cricket, etc to display traffic statistics.
Foundation Level NREN Technical Training
To include the fundamentals of Ethernet, ISDN, ATM, PDH and SONET/SDH paying particular attention to how they are used to build IP networks.
To include a review of the structure of the IP (v4) packet, common link-layer encapsulation schemes, IP addressing, ICMP, TCP, UDP.
Using SNMP polling, MIBs and open source-tools like MRTG, Cricket, etc to display traffic statistics.
DNS (fundamentals, configuration and operation), FTP, telnet, e-mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP).
Intermediate Level NREN Technical Training
Introduction to OSPF and IS-IS.
Concentrating on BGPv4 and its use in Internet Routing (including the notion of Autonomous Systems and the use of Routing Registries).
Fundamentals of multicasting, terminology, addressing, IGMP, PIM, multicast extensions to BGP, MSDP, SSM, common multicast-enabled applications.
Alarms, SNMP traps, syslog, Netflow statistics, network performance monitoring (e.g. RIPE TTM boxes / AMPlets from NLANR).
Advanced Level NREN Technical Training
Establishing a CERT, configuring and using IDS & Firewalls, security evaluation techniques, NATs, VPN technologies, etc.
DiffServ, Premium IP, less than best efforts, etc.
Transmission in optical fibre (types of fibre, light sources, attenuation, dispersion), WDM transmission systems, optical ADMs and cross-connects, IP/WDM, GMPLS, OBGP.