Course DescriptionThis seminar is designed to provide an empowering learning environment for prospective Internet engineers, managers, and policy makers. It provides a combination of lecture, whitepapers, books, and hands-on laboratory exercises all focused to teaching the participants how to design, scale, and maintain a production Internet Service Provider backbone. This ISP Seminar an on going effort to empower the ISP engineering community.

Cisco Systems, leading supplier of networking products, will provide equipment and senior consultant engineers who have built, maintained, and operated ISP around the world to conduct the workshop.

Topics covered during the week include:

Brief History of the Internet

ISP Network and Routing Architecture

Network Access Technologies

ISP Security

Multihoming Connections to the Internet

ISP Backbone Design

ISP Business Models

E-Commerce Services

DNS Infrastructure in an ISP

Trans-Oceanic Internet Backbone

Internet eXchange Points

Advanced BGP and Policy Routing

Network Services (QoS and other Services)

Multicast Services

ISP Case Studies

Etc.

Develop a solid understanding of how an ISP is designed, built, maintained, and make a profit.

The target audience are engineers, managers, and policy makers in Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecommunications companies, and very large campus backbones. Technical staff who is now or will be soon building or operating a wide area TCP/IP base Internet Service Provider (ISP) network or Internet eXchange Point (IXP), likely with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.

March 23-24, 2000

March 27-31, 2000

San Jose, California

K2-102, K2-104, K2-105, K2-108