Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) Management and Operation Training Course

Matrix is an open protocol designed for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. Organizations are increasingly adopting Matrix paired with the Element client as a viable alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams, ensuring end-to-end encryption, on-premise data residency, and seamless federation with external trusted partners.

This instructor-led, live training in Botswana (online or onsite) is designed for network and system administrators who wish to implement enterprise-grade network monitoring using open-source tools without vendor dependencies.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to deploy LibreNMS and Zabbix, monitor network devices, create dashboards and alerts, implement distributed monitoring, and integrate with external systems.

In this instructor-led, live training in Botswana (online or onsite), participants will learn how to use ONAP to automate networking services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand, install and configure the various components in the ONAP ecosystem.
• Carry out real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation of physical and virtual network functions.
• Design, create, orchestrate, and monitor VNFs, SDNs and other network services.
• Efficiently manage the entire networking lifecycle using a software-driven approach.
• Develop, deploy, and scale a network using the latest open source technologies and practices.

The course "Computer Network Security – How to Secure Your Services" presents the mechanisms and services that secure modern network solutions. It covers the basics of ensuring data confidentiality and integrity, the use of encryption, certificates, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and secure password storage. The course also discusses network security protocols and services, security systems, wireless network protection, interconnecting company branches, and security testing through penetration testing, network scanning, and vulnerability detection.

Synapse serves as the reference homeserver implementation for the Matrix protocol, facilitating decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messaging. This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets intermediate DevOps engineers and system administrators who aim to utilise Synapse and Element to substitute cloud-based chat platforms with a self-hosted, federated messaging infrastructure.

Uptime Kuma is an accessible, self-hosted monitoring tool that tracks the availability of websites, services, and infrastructure. It replaces Pingdom, Datadog Synthetics, and UptimeRobot for teams desiring ownership over their monitoring data. This instructor-led live training (online or onsite) is designed for beginner-to-intermediate SREs and DevOps engineers who wish to utilise Uptime Kuma to transition from cloud uptime monitoring to a self-hosted, sovereign status tracking platform.

OpenVPN and WireGuard are the premier open-source VPN protocols. Self-hosting your VPN server prevents third parties from logging metadata, injecting advertisements, or complying with external data requests. This training delves into both protocols to meet diverse threat models and performance needs.