WACREN will conduct a 4-day training for campus network engineers at the Virtual University of Burkina Faso, from Monday, January 16 to Friday, January 19, 2023.

This is part of capacity building efforts, under the Africa Digital Campus project, to upskill the engineers to be efficient and effective in administering the campus infrastructure.

The skills are expected to improve the usability, security and reliability of the campus network and improve the connection between the NRENs and the campus network.

Workshop topics include:

  1. Research and education network infrastructure
  2. Best practices for designing the core campus infrastructure
  3. Campus design principles
  4. Physical infrastructure (cabling and cable installation)
  5. Optical fibre
  6. Switching (spanning tree, VLANs, L2 best practice)
  7. Routing (static routing and OSPF)
  8. IPv4, IPv6 and deployment of a dual-stack infrastructure
  9. Choice of campus routers and switches
  10. Best practices in core network operations
  11. Campus security implementation and best practices
  12. Acceptable use policies
  13. Firewall placement monitoring
  14. Establishing sufficient instrumentation to monitor and manage the network.
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