Workshop Preparations
The technical workshop will be very much hands-on oriented with a majority of the time allocated for practical exercises.
We have chosen to use a training methodology where the trainees takes an active part of the workshop, before, during and after the training. In that way, we are convinced that we all will get the maximum out of the five days we have together.
Each participant that has been selected as the Technical representative of a project, needs to prepare himself/herself according to the instructions below. During the training, any trainee should be able to present the information we have asked her/her to prepare.
Preparations before training workshop
A) Network architecture and services
You should be able to present your wireless/wired network in terms of:
1) Link layer
* Wired infrastructure
* Wireless infrastructure (channels, SSID, link layer encryption)
2) Internet/transport layer
* IP addressing scheme with netmasks
* Routing software / tables
* DHCP setup
* Presence of NATs
3) Application layer
* What applications are you running in the network? Include billing and
network management and monitoring applications, if any.
4) Internet upstream
* Name of upstream provider
* Upstream/downstream connectivity and price according to contract
* Actual throughput (perform a set of throughput tests)
* Contract (please bring a copy of the contract)
* Backbone (by what means is your Internet connection connected to the
Internet? What backbone infrastructure has your ISP?)
* Configuration of border gateway
5) Local network
* Actual throughput, bandwidth, loss, latency (perform a set of
throughput tests)
6) Hardware and software
* Routers
* Switches
* Radio equipment
* Antennas and their installation
B) VoIP
All trainees should read the "VoIP Primer, Building Voice Infrastructure
in Developing Regions, Edition 2"
Available for download at:
http://www.voip4d.org/wiki/images/d/dc/IT46_VoIP4D_primer_2nd_edition.pdf
C) Wifi and Mesh
All trainees should be familiar with the following documents: