Tutorials

Three tutorials will run in parallel on Wednesday 27th Jan.  These are APNIC IRME, Security, MPLS, and Brocade (Foundry) traning provided by Renaissance.

IRME.  APNIC Internet Resource Management Essentials

Recommended for everyone who has, or is planning to obtain APNIC resources (addresses, ASNs).

Presenter:

Elly Tawhai - Senior Internet Resource Analyst, APNIC

For the past eight years Elly has been working at APNIC as an Internet Resource Analyst. She also co-ordinates APNIC's liaison activities within the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia.  Elly is one of the longest serving employees of APNIC having started in September 2000.  Elly is a Senior Internet Resource Analyst for APNIC.  She also acts as the Liaison Officer of APNIC to members and stakeholders in the Pacific region and an associate trainer supporting the APNIC training team.

She is responsible for working with resource holders to process resource allocation requests, which is the core operation of APNIC.  As a senior internet resource analyst her role extends to evaluating and analysing network plans from members and the community and making appropriate decisions for the distribution of the Internet resources throughout the region.  In her liaison role, Elly uses knowledge of the pacific region, networking with existing members, seeking liaison opportunities with potential members and actively participating in Liaison events. She is also occasionally required to work closely with the training team to conduct training within the region.

Who should attend:

IRME is targeted at the IT professionals responsible for administering and managing Internet resources, including IP managers, senior hostmasters, and network engineers.

Prerequisites:

What you will learn:

• The Internet Resource Management Essentials (IRME) tutorial is designed to introduce, highlight, and explain the key essentials of Internet resource management.
• It focuses on understanding the structures, processes, procedures, and policies involved in requesting, allocating, and managing Internet addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and AS numbers.
• The course covers the APNIC IP request and allocation management, APNIC policies and procedures, and the APNIC Whois database. 

Security.  CSI on the Internet - Anatomy of a network attack,  network forensics, network attack and defense.

A hands-on look at the nature and structure of network attacks and the tools, actions and processes that can be used to identify and respond to such attacks.

Places in this tutorial are limited.  Register early to avoid disappointment!

Presenter:

Marcel van den Burg - Team Cymru

Marcel van den Berg is a researcher at Team Cymru. Marcel has a background in law enforcement. He has been a police officer in The Netherlands for thirteen years. Of those thirteen years, he worked more than seven years at the computer crime unit of the serious and organized crime department of the Dutch National Police Agency and was part of the National High Tech Crime Center in the Netherlands. He is currently living in New Zealand.

Who should attend:

All engineers and operators concerned with network security and interested in gaining an understanding of the threats they face and how to mitigate them.

Pre-requisites:

This is a technical tutorial.  All participants should be familiar with IP networking and *nix/windows operating systems.

All participants should bring a laptop if possible.

What you will learn:

• A brief overview examining the anatomy of an attack and the creation of botnets will be presented and the motivation that drives such on-line malicious activity, the type of tools that are used in modern attacks, who is behind these and the impact they  have will be discussed.
• Identifying attack streams and understanding the nature of TCP/IP traffic will be discussed through the use of Wireshark, fprobe, nfsen and nfdump. Darknets and their operation and contribution to combating malicious network activity will be considered.
• As a practical, hands-on exercises, participants will be able to simulate a network attack and response scenario by trying to penetrate a remote network while at the same time protecting their own network from attack. This will be done using the tools and techniques discussed earlier on a real network running as part of the tutorial.

MPLS.  Metro Ethernet and L3 MPLS networks.

A look at the basics of MPLS networks, L3VNs, and in particular MPLS-based Metro Ethernet networks.

Presenter:

Paresh Khatri - Alcatel-Lucent

Paresh Khatri is the Director of the Advanced Consulting Engineering group within the IP Competency Centre at Alcatel-Lucent in APAC.  He has been responsible for architectural design for the largest IP transformation projects in the region, and is now working closely with service providers to develop strategies towards next-generation all-IP mobile networks.

Paresh’s areas of expertise include the entire range of IP/MPLS technologies and applications, from the network core to the access network.  He also specialises in packet-based mobile core and backhaul networks and emerging mobile technologies such as LTE.

Paresh has more than 10 years of experience with both service providers and vendors in building carrier-grade IP/MPLS networks, including the largest IP NGN transformation project ever undertaken in Australia.

Paresh is a regular speaker at industry conferences in the APAC region and also actively participates in a number of telecommunications industry standards bodies.

Paresh holds a Bachelors of Electronic Systems Engineering (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology.

Pre-requisites:

This tutorial is aimed towards participants who have a basic knowledge of MPLS and would like to gain an understanding of how to build Metro Ethernet networks using existing or new MPLS networks.

Who should attend:

Technical staff looking to build out a new or existing MPLS network or increase their knowledge and understanding of MPLS.

What you will learn:

The first part of the tutorial will focus on the following:

• A recap on the basics of MPLS
• L3 VPNs
• Basic Metro Ethernet services, as specified by the Metro Ethernet Forum
• A detailed look at pseudowire technology and how it can be used to provide emulation of Ethernet services.
• A detailed discussion of Ethernet Virtual Private Wire Services (VPWS) and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS).
• Providing resiliency for VPLS services.
• Scaling VPLS and VPWS-based services using hierarchical concepts.
• OAM capabilities in Metro Ethernet networks.

The second part of the tutorial will consider a few case studies:

• A basic Metro Ethernet network
• Extension of the basic Metro Ethernet network to provide inter-Metro services

Brocade (Foundry) training, provided by Renaissance.

All delegates attending this training will receive a complimentary exam voucher (usually $200) to enable completion of a Brocade qualification after this training.

Presenter:

Mat Mole - Regional Systems Engineer, Brocade

Prerequisites:

• CCNA or higher qualification. Understanding of the current range of Brocade IP products.
• Understanding of the OSI reference model, the IP network protocol suite, features and functions of layer 2 and layer 3 devices, Spanning Tree Protocol, Inter-domain routing protocols (RIP, static routes, OSPF, BGP).
• Attendees must bring a laptop with Windows95 or higher and permission to load command line simulators via USB flash drive.

Who should attend:

Course Content:

Course Objectives:

• Create Layer 2 and 3 Data Networks using Brocade Switches / Routers
• Use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to configure and manage Brocade Switch / Router interfaces, VLANs and protocols.
• Upgrade software images and files on Foundry Switch / Routers
• Interconnect Brocade Switch Routers based on a network design
• Configure Access Lists
• Troubleshoot using CLI show commands

Course Outline: