# Networking Best Practices Workshop

##### <span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-introduction-1">Introduction</span>

This tutorial is aimed at teaching Best Practices in network deployment. The intent is to sensitise operators, and participants to things that they should be aware of, from a macro level, and to stimulate discussion, interest, and knowledge in the mechanisms for operation. It is not intended for this to be extremely low level.

##### <span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-layout-1">Layout</span>

The key ideas would be to talk about issues that operators should be engaged in already, in a 90min slot. Some topics for discussion could be:

- the proper use of NMS systems
- configuration management
- IGP and EGP configuration and setup
- routing and Switching
- scaling virtualisation deployments

Since this would be tutorial style, it's intended for the discussions to be as interactive as possible, and, where possible, include hands-on practical sessions. It is also intended to be an introductory/refresher tools that we can use to gauge interest, and competency, that will allow us to plan for future workshops.

Note: sdnog-1 attendance showed us a significant student population attending, so we expect that this workshop would be more appealing to them, vs. a more low-level, specific workshop on a particular topic.

A suggestion for the tutorial scheme could be:

<table class="wikitable" id="bkmrk-%C2%A0-day-1-day-2-day-3-"><tbody><tr><th> </th><th>Day 1</th><th>Day 2</th><th>Day 3</th></tr><tr><td>Session 1</td><td>IP address space design and planning</td><td>Routing - IGP and EGP best practices</td><td>DNS</td></tr><tr><td>Session 2</td><td>IPv6 and its role in your network</td><td>BCP 38 and routing sanity</td><td>Configuration management</td></tr><tr><td>Session 3</td><td>Designing a switching environment</td><td>Network management systems</td><td>RIPE ATLAS Tutorial</td></tr><tr><td>Session 4</td><td>Designing a switching environment (cont)</td><td>Network management systems</td><td>Open Q&amp;A</td></tr></tbody></table>

##### <span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-instructor-list-1">Instructor List</span>

It is desirable that the instructor be experts in their respective areas of presentation, and have significant experience in the topics that they are presenting. Additionally, a good mix of local, and foreign expertise would be desirable, to allow for different points of perspective.

- Christian Teuschel
- Daniel Shaw
- Hiba Abbas
- Nishal Goburdhan
- Patrick Okui
- Sirag Aldeen Mahgoob