TECHNOLOGY LEADER

Course Summary

The first part would be training to bring folks up to speed, followed by application development projects. However, there will also be projects during the training program.

Phase 1: September 19th 2015 to November 8th 2015

What are market segments? Service Providers, Enterprises, Internet of Things (IoT), IoE, Transportation, Energy and Utilities, Big Data
- What are Carrier Ethernet and Mobile Networks?
Routers and Switches Fundamentals?
- How are Routers designed and built?
- High Bandwidth ASIC
- Cutting edge Router Design fundamentals
- FPGA Functions
Layer 2 networks and Layer 3 Networks
- What are the fundamentals of Computer Networks?
- IPv4 and IPv6
- TCP/IP
- Optical and Fiber (Layer 1)
- Ethernet
- Layer 2 Networks
- VLAN
- Subnetting
- Packet Capturing
- Data Center & ACI
Leadership
- How to brainstorm? Game Storming?
- Innovation & Disruption
- Lean Startup

Phase 2: Jan 22nd 2016 to April 2016

Layer 3 Networks:
- Routing Protocols - OSPF, ISIS and BGP
  - OSPF
    - Network Architecture Overview
    - What are P, PE, Aggregation, Pre-Aggregation and Access Routers?
    - What is Node, Hops?
    - Fundamentals of IP Forwarding?
    - How do routers forward packets?
    - Life of a packet of ping packets?
    - What are Static Routing and Dynamic Routing?
    - Difference between RIB and FIB?
    - OSPF Fundamentals
    - Link State Routing
    - OSPF Areas and LSDB
    - OSPF Configuration
  - ISIS
  - BGP
- MPLS & LDP
- Advanced MPLS - MPLS TE & Fast Reroute
- L2VPN
- L3VPN
- CE2.0 - ELINE, ELAN, E-Tree and E-access
- Quality of Service
- Layer 2 Networks
  - EVC
  - 802.1ad, QinQ
  - REP & G8032
  - Flexlink
- Unified MPLS
- Fast Convergence - Remote LFA, BGP PIC
- Advanced BGP
- Evolution of MPLS - Application Engineered Routing
Leadership
- Total Leadership Essentials: Four Way Win, Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness
What is Network Design?
- How do we design Carrier Ethernet Networks, Mobile Networks & Data center networks?
- Service Activation
- Network Design SLA

Phase 3: May 2016 to July 2016

Controllers & Programmability
- Session 1:
  - Topics:
  - Intro to Programmability, SDN & Programmability
  - Why do we need SDN? What is the problem in Today's Network?
  - High Level Overview of Northbound & Southbound APIs
  - Intro to Opensource & Cisco Controllers
- Session 2:
  - Topics:
  - Overview of Session 1
  - Deep Dive into Northbound & Southbound APIs:
  - NETCONF/RESTCONF/YANG
  - Demonstrate basic NETCONF via Python package NCCLIENT
  - Demonstrate RESTCONF via POSTMAN & ODL Controller
  - BGP-LS/PCEP
  - Demonstrated PCEP Examples of Creating tunnels and Computing Path examples
  - Segment Routing
  - Discuss the Designing of Network via Programmability technology
  - Intro to NFV — Virtual Routers basic concept & Network Service Header (NSH) Usecase
- Referemces:
  - Agile Carrier Ethernet Demonstration on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYqyAn9rl0
  - Segment Routing .net - http://www.segment-routing.net/
  - Segment Routing Demo Friday - https://www.sdxcentral.com/resources/sdn-demofriday/segment-routing-cisco-demofriday/
  - Cisco Programmability Yang blog - http://blogs.cisco.com/tag/yang
  - Tail-f netconf yang tutorials - http://www.tail-f.com/education/
  - BGP-LS linkedin blog: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introduction-open-api-bgp-link-state-bgp-ls-source-controller-abeer?trk=prof-post
  - Netconf linkedin blog: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/netconf-rfc-6242-protocol-tutorial-ahmed-n-abeer?trk=prof-post
Datacenter & Cloud
- - Network Fundamentals
  - What is a Data Center?
  - The need for a Data Center
  - Architecting a Productive Data Center
  - Data Center Elements
  - Data Center Physical Layout
  - Simple Data Center topology
- Reading material/Videos for reference:
  - - Google Data Center 360 Degree View:
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAYZU4A3w0
        you can use your mouse to move the screen for 360 degree experince
    - Inside Google's Data Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmGGAbHqa0
    - MicroSoft Data Center Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uRR72b_qvc
    - OVH Data Center - interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e97g7_qSxA
  - Introduction to Data Center:
    - - http://www.ece.virginia.edu/mv/pubs/tutorials/ANTS2012/ANTS2012-Tutorial-PartI.pdf
  - Data Center Networking:
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPiTcWdNo6c
- SAN details:Storage Fiber Channel SAN boot
  - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7et3bmXhr8w
- Introduction to Storage area networks (SAN)
  - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEsgqI49Dk
      - (some of the terms we used were iSCSI protocol, Fiber Channel, RAID)
- Basic Data Center Architecture walk through
  - What other DC architectures are available based on the problem they solve
  - Orchestration, Automation and Programmability requirments in Data Centers
  - Basic information on multi-tenant Data Centers and Cloud
- Three tier topology
  - DC Design Requirements
    - Challenges of three tier topology
    - DC Scalability and Redundancy
    - Modular vs Fixed hardware
    - Active/Active Port channel for effective bandwidth utilization
    - Spine Leaf topology and advantages
    - MultiTenancy
    - Reference Material:
    - Why Spine-Leaf Design
    - http://blog.westmonroepartners.com/a-beginners-guide-to-understanding-the-leaf-spine-network-topology/
    - Core-Spine-Leaf design
    - http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/feature/Data-center-network-design-moves-from-tree-to-leaf
    - Three tier architectur
    - http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/campover.html
    - Cisco Data Center design guide
    - http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/solutions/CVD/Aug2014/CVD-DataCenterDesignGuide-AUG14.pdf
    - this is a very good document but a little advanced. you will have to skip the configuration sections.
    - Search the following topics to expend your knowledge:
    - LACP/port-channel/link bundle
    - vPC
    - spine-leaf
    - cisco three tier designs
    - cisco spine-leaf design
    - data center compute design
    - data center storage design
Hands on Cloud Workshop
- - What is cloud? Why do we need cloud? If we need cloud services, how do we decide between public and private cloud?
  - Webservers and solution stacks, like LAMP, WAMP and XAMP
  - LEMP (Linux, Nginx, Mongo DB, PHP) and MEAN (Mongo DB, Nginx, Angular, Node)
    - [These stacks are actually the bundle of soultions required for running a server hosting various services (web, email, mobile app server, CDN, etc)]
  - Free resources on web which we students can utilize to learn, like free academic accounts of AWS and Azure are on top, some of them are not available now.
  - Computational packages on AWS (processor, memory, storage) and how we use them based on used cases
  - Security
  - Demonstration to create a webserver using AWS
  - Discussion:
    - Instructor shared his own experience of how he convinced the customers who were actually looking to buy web services from local cloud service providers considering low latency. But the local one's don't provide much wide spectrum of services and SDKs. AWS and Azure can be optimized using various techniques such as caching. Also the service experience can be optimize by combining different server engines (Apache, Nginx, IIS).
Data Analytics
- Application of Big Data and Smart Data in Computer Networks
Network and Device Visibility
- How to monitor the network and device?
- Network Management
Leadership
- Public presentation Essentials
- Essentialism
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- The Empowerment Dynamic
- Positive Psychology
- Mindfulness

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