NANOG Courses

Deploying a Large Scale Enterprise Wi-Fi Network using IPv6

Discover Meta's migration to IPv6-only enterprise Wi-Fi, covering rationale, multi-vendor implementation strategies, and real-world lessons from 8+ years of wireless network engineering experience.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

RIPE RIS and How to Query the Default-Free Zone

Discover how RIPE RIS now publishes BGP data as indexed Parquet files, enabling SQL queries and data science tools for faster routing analysis instead of complex MRT parsing.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding ARIN Policy - What It Means for You

Discover how ARIN's Policy Development Process shapes IP address allocation and routing security, learn about current proposals affecting network operators, and understand how to participate.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Network ASIC Architecture Review and Case Study

Explore Network ASIC architecture fundamentals, packet processing engines, buffer designs, industry trends, and Juniper ASIC case studies in this technical deep-dive.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Large Scale NAT Routing to Centralized Cluster over Segment Routing

Discover innovative segment routing design for Large Scale NAT clusters, simplifying architecture while maintaining resiliency and fast customer service delivery.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

5G, Fiber, and WiFi - The IP Takeover is Almost Complete

Explore how IP convergence is transforming 5G, Wi-Fi, and fiber networks, examining private deployments, edge computing, and practical frameworks for designing converged access architectures.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Inside the Hidden World of the Pluggable Transceiver

Dive into the normally hidden world of pluggable optical transceivers and their critical role in network infrastructure with industry expert Richard Steenbergen.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Basics of Quantum Computing and the Threat to Asymmetric Encryption

Explore quantum computing fundamentals and understand the critical threat to asymmetric encryption that protects internet security and financial transactions.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

When LLMs Meet ASNs - Rethinking AS-to-Organization Mapping at Internet Scale

Discover how ASINT uses LLMs and web data to map 111,470 ASNs to organization families, improving RPKI detection by 27.5% and reducing false hijack alarms by 9.4%.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

ARIN Update - Internet Number Resources, IPv6 Adoption, and RPKI Developments

Discover current Internet number resource developments including IPv6 adoption, IPv4 availability, RPKI progress, policy proposals, and community programs from ARIN's Chief Experience Officer.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Energy Efficient Routing - Traffic Engineering Mechanisms for Power Savings in Networks

Discover how Traffic Engineering mechanisms optimize network power consumption through Power Groups, enabling strategic traffic distribution during peak and off-peak hours.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Software Defined Backbone - Experience with a Deployed SD-WAN

Discover LinkedIn's Software Defined Backbone architecture, achieving 95% link utilization and 5 Tbps traffic across global data centers with centralized SDN control.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SmartSwitch - Network Device with Accelerated Services Sled - Azure Case Study

Discover how Microsoft leverages SONiC-DASH Smart Switches to build software-defined networks in Azure, enabling limitless networking for public cloud scale demands.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Journey to the Center of PSTN

Explore the inner workings of the Public Switched Telephone Network, from its history to modern IP integration, and understand how PSTN impacts telecommunications business operations.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Lessons from Building with the Model Context Protocol - MCP

Discover how the Model Context Protocol transforms AI-agent communication through self-describing context, turning APIs into shared memory and making natural language the new system abstraction layer.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video