Community discussion on training and technical assistance needs, by Nurul Islam Roman. A presentation given at APRICOT 2016’s NIR SIG session on 23 February 2016.

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APNIC Training and
Technical Assistance
Nurul Islam Roman

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APNIC Training Service
• Well structured event calendar
– Allows international travel arrangements with enough lead time
• 99.7% confirmed events, across 56 AP economies
• Strong member support
– Consistent mandate in every member survey
– And 2015 training needs assessment

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Main Training Topics
• APNIC in-house training materials
– Routing
• Four sub-courses (i.e. Basic/advance, BGP, IXP etc.)
• 20+ modules (OSPF/IS-IS etc.), 500+ slides, 8 hands on modules
(300+ pages)
– DNS
• Three sub courses (DNS/DNSSec, Rev-DNS etc.)
• 14+ modules (DNS/TSIG etc.), 227+ slides, 15 hands on modules
(65+ pages)
– IPv6
• Two sub courses (IPv6/IPv6 Security etc.)
• 10+ modules (Basic/Protocol structure etc.), 244+ slides, 5 hands on
modules (200+ pages)

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• APNIC in-house training materials
– Network Security
• 9+ modules (IPSec/Cryptography etc.), 400+ slide, 4 hands on
modules (50+ pages)
– MPLS
• 6+ modules (LDP/L3-L2 VPN etc.), 550+ slide, 11 hands on
modules (200+ pages)
– Internet Resource Management
• 5+ modules (PDP, Whois DB, MyAPNIC etc.), 130++ slide and live
demo
Main Training Topics

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APNIC Training Delivery
• Face-to-Face Training
– Conference track paper (20 to 30 minutes)
– Tutorials (Part of conference program) (90 minutes to full day)
– Technical workshop (Part of conference program) (4 to 5 Days)
– APNIC independent training in member economy (3 to 5 days)

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APNIC Training Delivery (2)
• E-Learning
– Web-casted live presentation (60 minutes)
– Recorded video published in YouTube (30 to 60 minutes)
– Self-paced module with quiz
– APNIC online training academy

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How APNIC Training Benefits Members?
• Evolving Asia Pacific Internet infrastructure
• From a single service infrastructure
– Internet only
• To multi-service
– Internet, Intranet VPN, Voice, Video etc.
• To run this multi-service network
– Large need for operational training
• APNIC training service
– Responds to this demand by providing Internet operational training
for the community

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APNIC Training Service Profile
• Highly technical Internet operational training
– Strong demand among Internet operational community
• Trainers are subject matter experts in Internet operational technology
– Partnering with local/regional champion engineers
• Well resourced quality training
– Well structured training materials
• presentation slides
• hands on instructions, case study, real ISP lab etc.
• Training delivered on open standard technology
– IETF RFC compliant
• In a multi-vendor platform
– Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, MikroTik etc.

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Training Resource Development Plan
• Re-design Training Lab
– Convert current training lab into a live ISP network in smaller scale
• New Technology Testing Environment
– Build a prototype ISP to experiment with Internet operational
technology
• i.e. 464 XLAT, NAT64, DNS64 etc.
• Operational Research Papers
– To provide technical papers for NOG, ARM, APRICOT and APNIC
meetings
– Regular lab exercises for conferences and workshops

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Training Resource Development Plan (2)
• Engaging NOG Community
– Training team will work with a group of volunteer NOG engineers to build
regular training content for lab environment
– Engage country champion engineers to build and update training content
and deliver training with APNIC training team
– Engage with country NOG program planning to supply more quality
technical content from APNIC
• Train the Trainer Program
– Through these workshops will focus on transferring required knowledge
to use APNIC training resources, materials, training lab etc.

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Training Resource Development Plan (3)
• Accreditation of Community Trainers
– Subject matter experts become “Community Trainers” to be part of
the APNIC training delivery team
• Social Media & Blog
– Develop as information source for APNIC training resources
– Develop as engagement platform to use training lab resources and
interactive “how to” documents.

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Technical Assistance Service (TAS)
• Small scale technology solution
– For widespread operational issues for APNIC members
• Need to justify Business Case as commercial project
– Either ISP or the vendor need to justify to make it as a viable
commercial projects
• TAS team will sit together
– To give momentum
– Develop cost recovery strategy
– Part of training delivery to reduce cost if needed

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TAS Services in 2016
• Routing Registry Function Automation
– For widespread operational issues for APNIC members
• IPv6 Deployment Planning
– Work with the member to develop address plan,
• Prefix De-aggregation Analysis & Action Plan
– Analyse CIDR report and develop better options. Respond to member
requests.
• IXP Operation and System Support
– Looking Glass / Route Server
– Open source IXP Manager etc.

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TAS & Training Lab
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TAS & Training Lab
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