Campus Network Design and Operations (CNDO)

20 Jul 2026, 09:00 → 21 Jul 2026, 21:15 Africa/Mogadishu

Online

Sharaf Roble (SomaliREN)

This is a 2 day technical workshop, made up of lecture and hands-on lab work to teach the skills needed to design, build, operate and manage a tertiary education institution's campus network infrastructure according to current best practices.

Monday 20 July

Opening Session

1 Campus core infrastructure design best practices

Campus design principles
Physical infrastructure (cabling and cabling installation)
Fibre optics

Speaker: Sharaf Roble (SomaliREN)

10:15 Break Time

2 Campus Network Equipments and Protocols

Switching (spanning tree, VLANs, L2 protection features)
Routing (static and dynamic (ISIS/OSPF))
IPv4, IPv6 and deploying dual stack infrastructure
Choosing campus routers and switches
Introduction to Wireless

Speaker: Sharaf Roble (SomaliREN)

Best practice techniques in core network operations

Convener: Sharaf Roble (SomaliREN)

3 Wrap-Up & Next Steps

Speaker: Sharaf Roble (SomaliREN)

Tuesday 21 July

Campus security implementation and best practices

Acceptable use policies
Monitoring
Firewall placement

Convener: Sharaf Roble (SomaliREN)

10:00 Break

Campus security implementation and best practices: Building sufficient instrumentation to monitor and manage the network

Acceptable use policies
Monitoring
Firewall placement

Convener: Sharaf Roble (SomaliREN)

Campus security implementation and best practices: Networking RoundTable

Acceptable use policies
Monitoring
Firewall placement