Duration: 1 Day
Description
This course explores the principles, architectures and technologies that underpin private cloud networking, with a particular focus on telecommunications environments. It explains how private cloud differs from traditional data centres and public cloud, and how virtual networks provide connectivity, isolation and resilience for cloud-hosted workloads.
Participants examine Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) design, including addressing, subnetting, routing, security controls and connectivity between networks. The course then explores the underlying networking technologies, including VXLAN, Geneve and BGP EVPN, alongside IPsec VPNs for secure connectivity. Design considerations and common troubleshooting challenges help connect these technologies to their operational use.
Building on these foundations, the course considers the requirements of telecoms workloads across central, regional and edge cloud deployments. Topics include the GSMA NG.126 Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model, network separation, performance, security and resilience. Practical laboratory exercises complement the taught content, helping participants develop their understanding of private cloud networking and its application in telecoms.
Course Modules
- What is Private Cloud?
- Virtual Private Cloud
- VPC Networking Technologies and Protocols
- Private Cloud Networking in Telecom
Prerequisites
Participants should have a working understanding of IP networking, including IPv4 addressing and subnetting, switching, routing and basic network security. Familiarity with VLANs, NAT and general telecommunications network concepts will be beneficial. An awareness of virtualisation and cloud computing is helpful, but prior experience of designing or operating private cloud networks is not required.
Who the Course Is For
This course is intended for network engineers, telecoms engineers, cloud and infrastructure engineers, technical architects, and operations or support specialists involved in planning, deploying or maintaining private cloud connectivity. It is particularly relevant to technical professionals moving from traditional IP or telecoms networks into cloud infrastructure roles, and those who need to understand how virtual networking supports telecoms workloads.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explain private cloud principles and how they differ from public cloud and traditional data centres.
- Describe VPC components for connectivity, routing, isolation and security.
- Design a VPC using addressing, subnetting, routing and high availability principles.
- Compare VPC interconnection methods, including peering, transit and shared services.
- Explain underlay and overlay networking, including VXLAN and Geneve.
- Describe how BGP EVPN supports VXLAN-based networks.
- Explain how IPsec and IKEv2 provide secure connectivity.
- Identify common VPC, overlay and VPN troubleshooting considerations.
- Describe the GSMA NG.126 Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model.
- Explain how performance, security and resilience requirements shape telecoms cloud deployments.
