Routing Workshop

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Routing Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7-11 May 2001

Dear Colleagues,

A Routing Workshop will be provided for RIPE NCC staff on 7-11 May 
2001 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands by Cisco Systems. This is a call 
for applications for 14 places still available in the workshop.

This workshop will be provided free of charge and includes lunches. 
PLEASE NOTE: Travel and accommodation are not provided or reimbursed.

Who should Attend: The target audience for this course is persons in 
the ISP community with a basic familiarity of Cisco Systems 
equipment. This is a technical workshop and most suitable for those 
persons who are now or will soon be building or operating a wide area
 
TCP/IP base Internet Service Provider (ISP) network or Internet 
eXchange Point (IXP) with international and/or multi-provider 
connectivity.

Prerequisites: Cisco IOS fundamentals; user level UNIX and possibly 
some system administration and; some use of network design, 
preferably TCP/IP based.

* Preference for this course will be given to those individuals that 
come from developing countries (i.e. Central Europe, Central Asia, 
Africa and The Middle East)

Cisco Systems will select 14 participants to attend the tutorial 
based on the information provided in the application form enclosed 
below.

WORKSHOP SCOPE:
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- Techniques for design, set-up, and operation of a metropolitan, 
regional or national ISP backbone network. This includes advanced 
OSPF, BGP4 and policy based routing.

- IOS Essentials every ISP should be doing. The hidden secrets that 
all key NSPs have been using for years but not telling anyone (ie: 
competitive advantage.

- Techniques for multiple connections to the Internet (multihoming), 
including connections to IXPs, NSP and transoceanic Internet links.

- Techniques for the design, set-up and operation of a metropolitan, 
regional or national IXPs

- Techniques to achieve optimal performance and configuration from a 
Cisco backbone router. This includes routing scalability, network 
design and configuration techniques.

- Examples from a case study from successful ISPs who are making use 
of many of the workshop techniques.


COURSE LOCATION:
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The course will take place at The Groot Industrieele Club, Dam 27, 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The instructors for the Workshop will be Philip Smith and Duncan 
Rogerson.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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* The deadline for application submissions: 11 April 2001.
* Acceptance notification to selected candidates: 16 April 2001
* Routing Workshop - 7-11 May 2001

For further information about the Cisco ISP workshop please contact: 

Joao Silva Damas
Chief Technical Officer
RIPE NCC

E-mail: joao at ripe.net


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ROUTING WORKSHOP - APPLICATION FORM

* Please submit your application form by email to <joao at ripe.net> 
with the following text as the subject: Routing Workshop

First Name:

Last Name:

Nationality:

Contact Information:
- postal address:

- Tel/Fax number:

- email address:


CV detailing ISP experience [max 200 words]:

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