Fernanda Adhipramana

Fernanda is a network engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing network infrastructures across enterprise WANs, service providers, and data center networks. He has a deep understanding of a wide range of networking technologies, including IGP (OSPF, IS-IS, RIP), BGP, MPLS, and VXLAN.

In addition to his technical background, Fernanda is also an experienced trainer with over 100 hours of teaching, and hundreds of students from various companies and academic institutions.

Fernanda volunteers as a community trainer and shares his knowledge.

Changqing An

Changqing An received the Master degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University. After graduation, she joined the Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace of Tsinghua University in 1996 and she now is an Associate Professor. Her research focuses are the basic theory, key technologies of network management and measurement, routing monitoring, and traffic analyzing.

BGP Routing Analysis with BGPWatch

Overview

Course Overview

BGPWatch offers an extensive overview of BGP routing and analysis. It highlights incidents related to route hijacking, identifies victims and attackers, and presents hijack statistics, routing paths, and various other features.

Moreover, the platform ensures rapid response times and issues event alerts via email. It evaluates the severity of events and offers event replay capabilities, all aimed at effectively aiding network operators.

Additionally, BGPWatch provides a range of tools for network monitoring, including a dashboard showcasing essential AS information, displaying forward, reverse, and bi-directional routing paths, and supporting subscriptions.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

• BGP route hijack detection
• BGP route diagnosis
• BGP route monitoring

Course Materials

Sonia Edward

Sonia started as a Graduate IP Engineer with Telikom PNG and worked for 6 years on the customer access network.

Sonia has recently joined PNG DataCo, a Tier 2 ISP and the internet Gateway of Papua New Guinea as the core IP engineer. Her role involves core routing and switching of traffic.

Sonia shares her knowledge as a volunteer community trainer for APNIC.

Milan Adhikari

Milan Adhikari is a dedicated network engineer with almost nine years of experience at WorldLink Communications, Nepal. His current role revolves around the configuration and operations of Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) and AAA services. He possesses a robust skillset in networking technologies, including OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, and wireless networking. He has also been an active volunteer and workshop provider at npNOG since 2018, wherein he contributes to the growth and sharing of knowledge within the networking community.

Md Abdullah Al Naser

Naser is a professional IP network enthusiast with extensive experience working in large ISPs, telecoms, and enterprise network infrastructures. He specializes in planning and designing complex network solutions for both service providers and corporate networks, with expertise in advanced routing protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP, as well as IPv6 and MPLS. Alongside his profession, Naser is also involved in technical writing and providing technical training within his capacity.

Rahul Makhija

Rahul Makhija is a seasoned IP network professional. He has been in the ISP industry since 2007.  He is a BGP enthusiast and an IPv6 evangelist. Rahul is currently the CTO at Esto Group of Companies (AS135817). He actively participates in various community engagements. Rahul has been contributing to various program committees such as INNOG, SANOG and APNIC conferences. Over the years, he has mentored many network engineers, helping them gain new skill sets and adopt industry’s best practices.

 Rahul shares his knowledge and experience as a volunteer community trainer for APNIC.

Jethro Tambeana

Jethro worked as a Network Engineer for over 17 years. He began his carrier with the local ISP Telecom Vanuatu Ltd as Network Administrator and later joined OGCIO to work as Network Manager for the Vanuatu eGov Network. He also was part of the initial setup and operation of the local IXP, Vanuatu Internet Exchange, and still provides technical support to the IXP to this day. Jethro now works as a network consultant and shares his knowledge as a retained community trainer for APNIC.

Abu Sufian

Abu Sufian has over 13 years of experience as a network and system administrator. He has worked for major ISP/IIG companies in Bangladesh as well as in other countries. 

He possesses extensive knowledge in network design and operations, network and system security, and VoIP technologies. He is passionate about open source monitoring systems and developing automation solutions on top of them. 

His areas of expertise include Advanced Routing, Advanced IGP, MPLS, BGP, IPv6, Infrastructure Security, NMM, and Network Automation. 

Furthermore, he actively participates as a speaker at BDNOG.

Abu Sufian shares his knowledge as a volunteer community trainer.

Md. Rafeeun Noby Babir

Md. Rafeeun Noby Babir is an accomplished professional in the field of Telecommunications and Information Technology. With an extensive experience in the network industry in Bangladesh, Babir has made significant contributions in Gateway Operations, specializing in International Internet Gateway (IIG), International Terrestrial Cable (ITC), National Internet Exchange (NIX) as well as Nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Babir’s expertise extends towards Network Servers and Security along with Routing and Switching. He possesses in-depth knowledge of BGP core networks. Along with a degree in ECE from KUET, he also holds certifications from industry-leading organizations like Cisco (CCNP, Specialist), Juniper (JNCIA), Huawei (HCIA), Red Hat (RHCE, RHCSA) and demonstrates his commitment to professional excellence.

Babir shares his knowledge as a volunteer community trainer for APNIC.