= Campus Network Best Practices Workshop - 2019 =

The workshop on Campus Network Best Practices is to provide the best practices to proper setting up of an institutional campus network with all its essential to monitor, troubleshoot, manage and secure. It includes network design/implementation, core layer and distribution layer configuration, NAT/firewall and monitoring/management.  

The content of the workshop will be carefully narrowed down to suite the local campus networks so that it can be directly applied to their networks with lot of confidence in mind. Simply it is, how you should get IPv4 and IPv6 work together while facilitating new technologies like eduroam, federated identity management, etc to your end users. 

The program targets the network/systems engineers from LEARN member institutions


'''Venue:''' Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya [[br]]
'''Duration:''' 5 days [[br]]
'''Class size:''' 60 [[br]]
'''Target group:''' !Network/Systems engineers from LEARN member institutions (one who deals with the campus network) [[br]]
'''Program Level:''' Intermediate [[br]]
'''Course fee:''' free of charge (two nights accommodation sharing basis, refreshment, lunch, dinner and break-first will be provided) [[br]]
'''Date:''' 11^th^ to 15^th^ Mar 2019[[br]]
[[span(style=color: #FF0000, '''Note:'''  Participants are requested to bring a laptop (8GB RAM, 25GB free disk space) with !VirtualBox hypervisor installed)]] [[br]]


== Important Dates ==

'''Call of Institutional Nominations Opening:''' 14^th^ Jan 2019 [[br]]
'''Call of Institutional Nominations Closing:''' 15^th^ Feb 2019 [[br]]
'''Selection announced:''' 15^th^ Feb 2019 [[br]]
'''Online Registration Opening:''' 15^th^ Feb 2019 [[br]]
'''Online Registration Closing:'''  07^th^ Mar 2019 [[br]]


== Workshop==

 * [wiki:Cnbp2019/Agenda Agenda]
 * Instructors: 
       - [wiki:Senevih Senevi Herath], !Network/System Manager, LEARN
       - [wiki:ThilinaP Thilina Pathirana], !Network/Systems Engineer, LEARN
       - [wiki:DhammikaL Dhammika Lalantha], !Network/Systems Engineer, LEARN
       - [wiki:ISolanga Indrajith Solangaarachchi], Systems Engineer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya
 * Organizing Team:
       - Rajeewa Abeygunarathna, Operations Manager, LEARN
       - Dinesh Gunawardana, LEARN
       - Viraji Kaushalya, LEARN
 * Participants:
       - [https://indico.learn.ac.lk/event/10/registrations/participants List of Participants]