Networking Fundamentals

This webinar will help you understand how networking technologies really work and why they were designed that way.

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ipSpace.net Design Clinic is a monthly Zoom call open to ipSpace.net users with active paid subscription. The discussions are recorded, and the best bits are published as parts of relevant webinars or as a stand-alone collection.

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This webinar explores tangible use cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in networking, and evaluates the good parts of AI/ML and the opportunities it brings. It also points out the (sometimes not so nice) reality, the bad aspects and the most ugly ones, giving you tools and decision points to help you explore the applicability of AI/ML in your context.

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We usually design networks based on our intuition, past experience, or vendor-provided best practices. Other disciplines like Electrical Engineering are more rigorous and apply math tools to their problems. These webinars will help you understand the math basics of network topologies, reliable designs, and queuing.

This webinar will give you basic familiarity with graph theory, an understanding of what connectivity in networks means mathematically, and a new perspective on network design.

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This webinar will give you basic familiarity with reliability theory, an understanding of what reliability of a network means mathematically, and a new perspective of systems reliability.

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This webinar will give you basic familiarity with the queuing terminology and mathematical principles underlying the various queuing models.

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In this webinar we'll examine how to understand different networking problems and concepts from mathematical perspective through the lens of graph algorithms or computational graph theory.

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Being a good networking engineer is more than just having the prerequisite knowledge and understanding the networking technologies. You should also be able to figure out the best way to solve actual business needs (as opposed to implementing requirements that come down the stack) and pass your knowledge to less experienced colleagues.

This webinar will put you in the right mindset when evaluating new technologies or designing new networks or services, and help you refocus on what really matters: the business needs of your organization.

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This webinar approaches mentoring through the perspective of a typical engineer looking for understanding, tools and processes one can use to get good results instead of typical disappointments resulting from reading too many motivational blog posts.

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Learning about the basics of computer networking is no longer expensive. This section contains links to several high-quality open-source textbooks.