Workshops

Universities spend approximately $1.9B on IT procurement every year, representing an average of 7% of University revenue. The market is considerable, and when considered strategically can be used to the advantage of the sector.

CAUDIT Provides a Strategic Procurement service to members within Higher Education and Research. A strategic approach to procurement is key to developing an efficient procurement process that assists in deriving best value for money from projects. The approach can take place at many levels within an institution, and across the sector – with each level providing purchasing efficiency.

In this workshop we will discuss various options to derive the most from your vendor dollar and to ensure your internal procurement processes are well established so that you are able to make the most of offers from CAUDIT, and to ensure that your institution is achieving the best value for money.

Included within the session:

• Best practice IT procurement – within your institution
• Making the most of Strategic Collaborative Procurement
• Terms and conditions, contracts and agreements
• Approaches to market – tenders, requests, quotations and best pricing
• Information about national offers currently in place
• An exploration of potential offers, and areas of interest

The session is targeted at procurement professionals working within the IT department of Higher Education.

Eric Holton and Wojtek Malewski Hewlett Packard

Software-defined Networking (SDN) is changing the way networks are managed, maintained, and secured.

Hewlett Packard’s SDN vision, strategy and architecture is inclusive of all aspects of the network infrastructure from the core, to the cloud to the branch office. We have developed a strong portfolio of SDN use cases to demonstrate the technology today with substantial benefits to business outcomes.

The focus of the workshop is to provide:

1. Fundamental knowledge around SDN standards, technology and architectures
2. Practical hands on labs exploring different solutions and real world applications.

The session will be a great forum to exchange ideas, present exiting new approaches, as well as openly discuss current challenges and opportunities on how universities consider SDN deployment to impact data-intensive, security, mobility, and pre-production campus and data centre networks.

Target Audience:
Those individuals involved in creating new network architectures and deploying new applications or anyone who is interested in building key knowledge and skills for the new age of networking.

9.00am – 1.00pm

Agenda:

Session 1
SDN Introduction
Technology fundamentals
Standards
OpenFlow 101

Morning Break

Session 2
Controller Architecture
Design Considerations
Applications and APIs
Practical Use Cases

Session 3
SDN Hands on Labs
HP VAN SDN Controller walkthrough and application deployment
Management tools – HP IMC SDN Manager
OpenFlow configuration and basic troubleshooting with switches and Mininet virtual environment
SDN applications dynamic QoS and security

Required Equipment
All lab equipment for the hands on activities including software, switches and cables will be provided by HP. Participants are asked to please bring their own laptops which will be utilised for configuration and client testing.

Hewlett-Packard and SDN
HP has been involved in programmable networking architectures since its inception in late 2006 and is a founding member of the Open Network Foundation the standards body for SDN. From the collaboration between HP Labs and Stanford University we have demonstrated strong commitment to the SDN technology and standards development.

Today we provide the most advanced, mature and complete SDN offering in the market including:

• Infrastructure i.e. switches/routers/wireless access points.
• Controllers.
• Application development community,
• Management and orchestration suit.

Workshop 3: Understanding and Implementing MPLS

Workshop 4: OpenWrt - Enterprise Security on low cost hardware

*Please note that attendees at this workshop are required to bring their own laptop (Windows or 'vim), with physical LAN and wireless.

In this workshop, we will spend the day setting up the many enterprise security and networking features of the robust, stable, and extensible open source firmware OpenWrt on common and inexpensive hardware.

The point of this tutorial is to introduce non-networking people to networking and security concepts in a very hands-on manner. Each participant will get a OpenWrt compatible router to experiment on during this workshop. In this hands-on session, you will setup a test environment on the router.

On the low cost router that will be given to each and every participant to use during the day, you will learn how to setup and test the following items:

• A stateful firewall, NAT and port forwarding
• VLANs
• Separate subnets for each LAN port and WiFi with different DHCP arrangements
• VPN Server using OpenVPN
• Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Port knocking
• SSH server with different configuration for each interface/subnet. For example, only public key login accepted from WAN and WiFi but allow login with password through LAN ports.
• SMTP agent to allow sending notifications via email
• DNS
• Custom scripts to send security notifications

What else can you do with OpenWrt? Almost anything you can do with Linux! You can set up a webserver, asterix, bittorrent, network monitoring, bandwidth monitoring, etc.; the list goes on and on! I will touch upon many of OpenWrt's over 3400 packages throughout the tutorial. This will provide a good grounding for each participant as to what OpenWrt can be used for. I will happily provide advice for the individual situations of each of the participants either throughout the tutorial or afterwards!

All of the OpenWrt basics will be covered first, including a proof-of-concept of how to build OpenWrt from the source! This tutorial doesn't assume any advanced level understanding of any of the above concepts. 

Tutorial attendance requirements:

• Basic understanding of networking
• Basic understanding of *nix systems