APDIP, in  co-operation with CISCO Systems, hosted the Internetworking Technology (ISP/IXP BACKBONE) Workshop in Kuala Lumpur from 23 - 27 November, 1998. CISCO Systems, leading supplier of networking products, provided equipment and highly skilled trainers to conduct the workshop.

This Workshop covered topics on Network Access Technologies, Internetworking Devices, Internet Protocol (IP) routing, Top Level Domains (TLDs) and procedures for domain registration. Essentially, it included hands-on tutorials on routing configurations alongside technical explanations.

Who should attend: Technical staff who is now or will be soon building or operating a wide area TCP/IP base Internet Service Provider (ISP) network or Internet eXchange Point (IXP), likely with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.

Prerequisites: Cisco IOS Fundamentals; user level UNIX and maybe some system administration; some use of network design, preferably TCP/IP-based. Ideally all attendees will have completed the Cisco ICRC course.

Topics:

• Techniques for design, setup, and operation of a metropolitan, regional, or national ISP backbone network. This includes advanced OSPF, BGP4, and policy based routing configurations.
• IOS Essentials every ISP should be doing. The hidden secrets that all key NSPs have been using for years, but not telling anyone (i.e. competitive advantage).
• Techniques for multiple connections to the Internet (multihoming), including connections to IXPs, NSP, and transoceanic Internet links.
• Techniques for the design, setup, and operation of metropolitan, regional, or national IXPs.
• Detailed knowledge of routing, network troubleshooting, routing protocols, domain name system, NIC name and address coordination.
• Examples from a case study from successful ISPs who are making use of many of the workshop techniques.

Lectures, whitepapers, books and hands-on laboratory exercises focused to teaching the participants how to design, scale, and maintain an Internet Service Provider backbone are provided. The following is the preliminary schedule:

23 - 27 November 1998, (Monday - Friday):