Training Update and Technical Assistance Service Demo, by Nurul Islam. A presentation given at APNIC 42's APNIC Services session on Tuesday, 4 October 2016.

1. APNIC Training and Technical
Assistance Service
Nurul Islam Roman, APNIC

2. APNIC Training
• Provides training in Internet operational technologies
– Open standard, technology neutral, RFC compliant
– Industry-oriented best current practices
– Strong demand from Internet operational community
• Trainers are subject matter experts in Internet operational technologies
– Engage local/regional expert engineers as “Community Trainers”
• Well structured training materials
– Presentation slides, hands-on instruction, case studies, actual ISP lab and so forth
• Multi-vendor hands-on ISP training lab
– Cisco, Juniper, Huawei and so forth
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3. Core competence areas
• Internet Resource Management, IRR and RPKI
• Routing, Switching and MPLS
• IPv6 Deployment and Transition Technology
• DNS and DNSSec Deployment
• System and Services on Linux/Unix
• Network Security and Incident Handling
• New technologies, that is, SDN, NFV and Virtualization
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4. Training resources
• ISP training lab
– Live ISP network (AS17821)
– Multi-homed with two upstreams
– Main services are co-located in
DC
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5. Training resources
• ISP training lab supports operational training needs
– Similar network infrastructure and
complexity to real work environment
– Real life network scenario
as workshop exercise
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6. Training resources
• ISP training lab has:
– IP core network
– Customer access network
– Datacentre network
– Internet exchange point
– Multi-homing upstream
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131107 45192
17821
65001
65002
65003
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65008
65000
IXP
Internet
Upstream A Upstream B
Route View v4
172.16.0.0/19 17821 i
172.16.16.0/24 65001 i
172.16.17.0/24 65002 i
172.16.18.0/24 65003 i
172.16.19.0/24 65004 i
172.16.20.0/24 65005 i
172.16.21.0/24 65006 i
172.16.22.0/24 65007 i
172.16.23.0/24 65008 i
Route View v6
2406:6400:/32 17821 i
2406:6400:6501::/48 65001 i
2406:6400:6502::/48 65002 i
2406:6400:6503::/48 65003 i
2406:6400:6504::/48 65004 i
2406:6400:6505::/48 65005 i
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2406:6400:6508::/48 65008 i
Training DC
APNIC NOC
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Training DC

7. Community Trainers
• Industry experts, hands-on engineers
– Country champion Internet engineers
– Demonstrated significant Internet operational
experience and skills
– Recognized mentorship role within their country or
region
– Regular contributor to NOG community/mailing-lists
• APNIC invites them to share their skills through
well-structured training and technical
assistance programs
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8. Training metrics
Face-to-Face eLearning Web Class
Courses 15 34
Locations 11 cities in 11 economies N/A
Participants 576 206
Training YouTube channel 35,222 views + 335 subscribers
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June to 7 September 2016
April - 30 June 2016
Face-to-Face eLearning Web Class
Courses 10 23
Locations 6 cities in 5 economies N/A
Participants 306 135
Training YouTube channel (as at 05 September) 22,022 views + 215 subscribers

9. Technical Assistance Service (TAS)
• Small-scale technology solutions
– For widespread operational issues faced by APNIC Members
• Where there is no business case to justify it as a
commercial project
– TAS will focus on these projects and problems
• TAS team will sit with Members:
– To give momentum
– Develop cost-recovery strategy (can be part of training delivery to
reduce cost if needed)
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10. TAS in 2016-17
• Routing registry function automation
– For widespread operational issues faced by APNIC Members
• IPv6 deployment planning
– Work with Members to develop address plans
• Prefix de-aggregation analysis and action plan
– Analyse CIDR report and develop better options
– Respond to Member’s requests
– BCP 38
• IXP operation and system support
– Looking Glass / Route Server
– Open source IXP manager and so forth
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11. Routing registry automation
• Help secure routing infrastructure
– By automating LoA checks for ISP and enterprises
• RPKI and RPSL is the underlying technology
– APNIC helps set up RoA, RPKI cache and necessary router
configurations
– APNIC helps analyse transit, peering and customer routing policy and
documents these in the RPSL object
• Using RTConfig tools automates the edge router
configuration
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12. IPv6 deployment plan
• IPv6 address planning and transition strategy
– Analyse network topology and guide Members through IPv6 address
planning
– Help build dual stack router configuration for IP core network
– Explain successful transition strategy for customer access and
content network
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13. TAS metrics
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June to 7 September 2016
April - 30 June 2016
Dedicated TA Session TA Demo at Conference E-mail & Skype TA
Number of Activities 4 4 4
Locations Thailand: 1
Cambodia: 1
Indonesia: 2
Thailand BKNIX: 1
Indonesia APJII OPM: 2
India SANOG 28: 1
Nepal: 1
India: 1
New Caledonia: 1
Bangladesh: 1
Topics IPv6 Deployment, IXP
Routing Registry RPKI and RPLS
Routing Registry Automation
(RPKI/RPSL)
ISP Setup Advice
RPKI/RPSL, MPLS, RPKI,
Security BCP
Dedicated TA Session TA Demo at Conference E-mail & Skype TA
Number of Activities 2 3 3
Locations Timor-Leste: 1
Bangladesh: 1
Timor-Leste: 1
Sri Lanka APNIC 42: 1
Malaysia MyIX: 1
Nepal: 1
India: 1
New Caledonia: 1
Bangladesh: 1
Topics IXP
Security, RPKI
IXP Setup
Routing Registry Automation
(RPKI/RPSL)
RPKI/RPSL
MPLS
Security BCP, RPKI

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