One day. Twelve seats.
Real kit on the bench.
Fifteen years of putting Peplink into places it is not allowed to fail, and years inside the global channel with distributors and partners worldwide, distilled into one day on the bench. You configure it, bond it, break it and fix it yourself, on real hardware. Not a slideshow, and not a certification. The practical day this industry has been missing.
Wednesday 30 September 2026 · Near Birmingham Airport · From £750 +VAT
The day this industry has been missing
I have spent fifteen years deploying Peplink where failure was not an option: broadcast contribution, live events, vessels mid-crossing, command vehicles, enterprise sites. Alongside the deployments I have spent years inside the global channel, working with distributors and channel partners around the world, watching the same deployment mistakes repeat in every territory. Almost every one traces back to something nobody showed the installer with the kit in front of them.
This is the day that closes that gap. Twelve people, real routers on the bench, and six teaching hours built almost entirely around labs you run yourself. You will not watch me click through a demo. You will build it, and when it breaks, which it will, you will learn why and how to fix it. That is the part that stays with you.
This is deliberately not a certification course and not a replacement for PCSS, PCA or PCE. It sits alongside them: the practical, deployment-led day that teaches you how the kit actually behaves on a live site with a customer waiting.
Five modules, each paired with a lab
Every module is hands-on. You leave having done the work, not just seen it.
- InControl2 at scale. Fleets, groups, config templates, and the workflows that stop large estates becoming unmanageable. By the end of this lab your router is on the venue's WiFi, broadcasting your own network, and enrolled in your own InControl2 organisation.
- Cellular, done right. SIM selection, band locking, signal, antennas, MIMO and placement, then Starlink brought into a hybrid, resilient WAN. The physical layer most deployments get wrong.
- SpeedFusion. Bonding, hot failover, WAN smoothing and FEC, plus PepVPN and FusionHub topologies, built and tested on the bench.
- Outbound and inbound routing. Policy-based routing, outbound rules, port forwarding, inbound access and NAT behaviour. The part that separates a working install from a right one.
- Live troubleshooting. I break the builds you made in modules one to four. You diagnose and fix them, live, with a repeatable method you take home.
And if the day runs tight and the group can take it, a bonus sixth module: high availability and SDX.
Taught by the engineer who deploys it
For fifteen years my work has been networks where failure was not an option: broadcast contribution links, festival and event sites, vessels mid-crossing, command vehicles, enterprise branch estates. Bonding cellular and running SpeedFusion before most resellers offered it. Alongside the deployments, years spent in the global channel with distributors and channel partners worldwide, seeing what actually gets deployed, what breaks, and why. That is the experience on the other side of the bench, not a call centre and not a sales script.
I also hold Peplink's engineer and trainer credentials, earned through real deployments and assessment. But that is the paperwork. What you are booking is the fifteen years.
Twelve seats is a hard cap, chosen so everyone gets direct time. Bring the deployment that is bothering you and we will work it through together.
The price rises as the room fills
Twelve seats, released in steps. The priority list hears first. No discount codes, no extensions.
| Release | Price |
|---|---|
| Pre-early bird priority list only | £750 +VAT |
| Early bird | £850 +VAT |
| Late bird | £925 +VAT |
| Full price | £995 +VAT |
Your seat includes the day, the labs, a Peplink router on your bench, a physical SIM and eSIM with 10GB of shared data to keep, lunch and refreshments. Seats are transferable to a colleague at any time; if you cannot attend we credit your seat to a future date.
Booking opens to the priority list first.
Go deeper if you want to
Take-home lab kit
A kit built to mirror the day, yours to keep practising on. Offered privately to booked delegates at a delegate-only price you will not see published anywhere. Details arrive after you book.
One-to-one deep dive
A private session with Adam, scheduled around the event, on your own deployment. Two slots only, for the questions a group day cannot cover.
Stay over
Add a room at the venue hotel for the night before, or the night before and after. One less thing to plan on an 08:00 start.
Birmingham, Wednesday 30 September 2026
Central, easy by rail and air, with free on-site parking. The pilot runs near Birmingham Airport on Wednesday 30 September 2026, with Chicago and Hamburg opening the wider rotation after. Doors from 8:00, finish by 18:00, with a working lunch and refreshments served in the room.
Twelve seats, released on a first-come basis. Full pricing is above; booking is handled on the shop.
Prefer bespoke, remote or exam-prep training instead? See our Peplink training services, including PCE, PCSS and PCA preparation.