NANOG Courses

A Not So Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Port 22

Explore network troubleshooting when forwarding and control planes become out of sync, examining vendor-specific issues and the evolution of router/switch architectures.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The eBPF Systems Revolution

Discover how eBPF revolutionizes data center networking through load balancing, protocol experimentation, and monitoring innovations in cloud computing environments.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Cross Platform Network Filtering - Managing Access Rules Across Large Network Infrastructures

Discover how Meta streamlines network security policy management across multi-vendor infrastructures using CAPIRCA and automated risk assessment engines for scalable access control.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

ARIN Update - IPv6 Growth, IPv4 Transfer Statistics, and Organizational Updates

Discover ARIN's latest organizational updates including IPv6 growth trends, IPv4 waiting list statistics, and transfer data from the Chief Experience Officer.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Exploring SONiC's Integration of EVPN-VxLAN

Dive into SONiC's architectural implementation of EVPN-VxLAN technology, examining key challenges and advancements in this network operating system integration.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Data Center Futures - Scaling the Backbone of Tomorrow's Digital World

Explore data center evolution and infrastructure scaling to support next-generation applications with insights from industry expert John White on future technological disruptions.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Backbone Change Management - Scaling at Million+ Operations Each Year

Discover Meta's backbone change management system handling 1M+ annual operations with automated orchestration, intent-aware scheduling, and proactive risk mitigation strategies.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Comfortable Complexity of Overlays

Explore the evolution and intricacies of network overlay technologies, from basic implementations to advanced architectures, covering L2/L3 VPN developments and future trends.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Network Automation Pipelines - From Near-Zero to Hero in 45 Minutes

Master network automation by building a complete pipeline from Jira requests to Palo Alto firewall deployment using GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Nautobot in just 45 minutes.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Automate to Dominate - Supercharge Network Provisioning at Meta

Discover how Meta automates network device lifecycle management at scale, covering bootstrapping, OS upgrades, config generation, and open source tools for efficient provisioning.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Inside Google Peering - Trends, Recent Policy Changes, and Future Direction

Explore Google's evolving peering policies, traffic shifts from Cloud and YouTube, IX challenges, PNI updates, and the new Verified Peering Provider program's impact on internet infrastructure.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

GenAI Powered Network Automation - Can LLM Agents be Network Operators?

Explore how generative AI and LLM agents can revolutionize network automation, featuring multi-agent configurations for troubleshooting and in-context learning to improve operational accuracy.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Lightweight Traffic Engineering for the AI/ML Fabrics

Explore BGP Deterministic Path Forwarding and Global Load Balancing techniques to optimize AI/ML data center fabrics, addressing congestion hotspots and ensuring low-latency transport.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Scourge of Excessive AS-SETs

Explore AS-SET objects and their role in IRR-based route filtering, addressing the problem of oversized AS-SETs that whitelist too much of the routing table and learning effective solutions.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

SCInet - A Volunteer's Guide to the Fastest Temporary Network In The World

Discover how 200+ volunteers from 100+ organizations globally collaborate to build and deploy SCInet, the world's fastest temporary network for the annual Super Computing Conference.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video