This advanced Workshop is designed to provide an empowering learning environment for prospective Internet engineers. It provides a combination of lecture, whitepapers, books, and intensive hands-on laboratory exercises all focused to teaching the participants how to design, scale, and maintain a production Internet Service Provider backbones. This ISP Workshop is part of an on going effort to empower the ISP engineering community.

This workshop strives to empower ISP & Telco engineers with the skills, resources and confidence they need to design and run the Internet. In essence, the objective of the program is to clone ISP Engineers.

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.

This Workshop will focus on the routing protocols that are the essential glue of the Internet – OSPF and BPG. Other topics include backbone design, POP design, trans-oceanic Internet circuits, and other topics customized to fit the student’s critical requirements.

Lectures, whitepapers, books and hands-on laboratory exercises focused to teaching the participants how to design, scale, and maintain an Internet Service Provider backbone are provided. In the next few weeks we will make available the final curriculum. The following is a preliminary schedule:

Techniques for design, setup, and operation of a metropolitan, regional, or national ISP backbone network. This includes advanced OSPF, BGP4, and policy based routing configurations. IOS Essentials every ISP should be doing. The hidden secrets that all key Network Service Providers have been using for years, but not telling anyone (i.e. competitive advantage). Techniques for multiple connections to the Internet (multihoming), including connections to Interexchange Providers (IXP), Network Service Providers, and transoceanic Internet links. Techniques for the design, setup, and operation of metropolitan, regional, or national IXPs. Detailed knowledge of routing, network troubleshooting, routing protocols, domain name system, NIC name and address coordination. Examples from a case study from successful ISPs who are making use of many of the workshop techniques.

Delegates must be engineers from Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecommunications companies, and very large campus backbones. These engineers must be actively involved with the design, operations, and maintenance of IP based backbones for Internet, Voice, or other data services. Delegates should be familiar with the fundamentals of routers, switches, and basic networking.

August 11, 2000

August 14-18, 2000

San Jose, California

K2-207, K2-209, K2-214, K2-215, K2-216, K2-219