Network Management Fundamentals
Learn practical skills from people who actually manage networks daily
Our autumn 2025 program focuses on the basics that matter. You'll work with real equipment, troubleshoot actual problems, and understand how network infrastructure holds together—not just theory, but hands-on experience that makes sense.
What We Actually Teach
- Real Equipment Practice You'll configure switches and routers in our lab—not simulations. We have gear from Cisco, Mikrotik, and Ubiquiti because different vendors think differently about networks.
- Troubleshooting That Works Most network problems are boring: wrong VLAN, misconfigured gateway, DNS pointing nowhere. We teach you how to find these issues quickly, which saves everyone's sanity.
- Documentation Skills Nobody talks about this enough. Good network diagrams and clear configuration notes prevent disasters. We spend time on this because it matters in actual jobs.
- Security Basics Not advanced pentesting—just the fundamentals like proper firewall rules, secure passwords, and understanding why open ports can cause problems.
Six Things You'll Know After Week Three
These are the practical skills that show up in everyday network management. Not everything, obviously—but enough to be useful.
Read Network Diagrams
Understand topology drawings and what all those lines and boxes actually represent in physical infrastructure.
Configure VLANs
Set up virtual networks on switches—separate guest WiFi from business traffic, that kind of thing.
Basic Router Setup
Get routers talking to each other, configure static routes, understand when dynamic routing makes sense.
Use Command Line
Navigate Cisco IOS and Linux networking tools without panic. The terminal is your friend, eventually.
Diagnose Connectivity
Ping, traceroute, checking ARP tables—the basic toolkit for figuring out where packets disappear.
Document Changes
Write configuration notes that actually help future you (or your colleagues) understand what's happening.
Who's Teaching This
Our instructors manage networks for Taipei businesses—small offices, retail chains, a couple of logistics companies. They've seen things break in creative ways and know how to fix them without making things worse.
We asked them to teach because they're patient explainers and remember what confused them when they started. Plus they have stories about weird network problems that are somehow both horrifying and educational.
Alaric Thorsen
Network Administrator
Manages a retail network with 23 locations. Specializes in VLAN design and wireless troubleshooting. Once fixed a mystery packet loss that turned out to be a coffee machine on the wrong network segment.
Isolde Vangard
Infrastructure Specialist
Runs network operations for a logistics company. Knows routing protocols and firewall configurations. Very good at explaining complex concepts using simple analogies about traffic flow.
Seraphine Kallisto
Systems Engineer
Handles network and server infrastructure for manufacturing facilities. Focused on documentation practices and methodical troubleshooting approaches that actually work under pressure.
Program Structure and Schedule
Twelve Weeks, September to November
Classes meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7pm to 9:30pm. We start September 16, 2025. That's two evenings a week, which leaves time for practice work and your existing job.
Small Groups Maximum
We cap enrollment at 14 people per session. More than that and lab time gets crowded. Smaller groups mean instructors can actually help when you're stuck on a configuration.
Lab Access Between Classes
Our lab is open weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings for practice. Sometimes you need to try something three times before it clicks—having access to equipment helps.
Real Projects, Not Exams
Your final project involves designing and building a small office network from scratch. We provide requirements, you figure out the solution. It's closer to what actual network jobs look like.