The 5th Annual Peplink Tech Summit: Five Days That Rewire How You Build Networks

November 8–12, 2026. San Antonio, Texas. The biggest, deepest, most hands-on Peplink training event in the world turns five — and this year it happens a stone bridge away from the River Walk.

The river under the street

San Antonio hides its best feature a level below its streets. Step down one flight of limestone stairs off any downtown block and the traffic noise disappears: cypress trees, arched footbridges, barges sliding along a green river that loops through the city — quietly carrying everything above it.

Which is, if we’re honest, the best description of a bonded network we’ve ever heard. The people upstairs never think about the river. The uptime just flows. That’s the job. And once a year, the people who build that invisible layer — the engineers, integrators, and operators of the Peplink world — come down the stairs together to compare notes, break things in a lab where breaking things is the point, and go home measurably better at the craft.

This is the Peplink Tech Summit. Our fifth. And it is not a conference.

Not a conference. A field exercise.

Conferences are ballrooms, lanyards, and a vendor pitch with lunch. The Summit is five days of real hardware on real benches — the same training that produced the lab guides in our library: InControl management labs, switching labs, Synergy-mode builds, Wi-Fi design, zero-touch deployment drills. You don’t watch someone configure a SpeedFusion tunnel on a slide. You configure it, steer traffic into it, watch a carrier “fail” on purpose, and see your video stream not care. That moment — the one where the graph doesn’t dip — is why people fly in.

New for the fifth year: the whole event is fully customizable. Courses are organized by topic and difficulty, so a two-person shop can run one track while a ten-person integrator splits across three. Come for the fundamentals, the deep end, or the Peplink certification exams — PCSS, PCA, and PCE testing all happen on site. Bring your team; leave with credentials.

What five days gets you

• Learn from the people who deploy this for a living — the instructors run networks for golf majors, mobile clinics, cruise ships, and 1,900-store fleets. Ask them the question you can’t ask a datasheet. (You’ll recognize a certain Professor P.)
• Hands-on labs, by track and difficulty — routing, SpeedFusion bonding, InControl 2 at fleet scale, switching, Wi-Fi, security hardening. The User Guide is the map; the Summit is the terrain.
• Certification testing — sit the exams with the instructors in the room.
• The 2027 preview — new products, the firmware roadmap after 8.6, and where the platform goes next — before the rest of the market hears it.
• Real-world war stories — success stories from broadcast, healthcare, construction, maritime, and events; the same worlds documented in our industry guides, told by the people who lived them.
• The hallway track — because the connection that matters most at a connectivity conference is the one you make with the engineer solving your exact problem two seats over. Great things happen when this community collaborates.

Why San Antonio

Because after a nine-hour lab day your team deserves better than a hotel bar off an interstate. Dinner is a barge ride past the Arneson River Theatre. The Alamo is a three-block walk. The Pearl District does breakfast tacos that will recalibrate your standards permanently. And in the second week of November, San Antonio runs low-70s and golden — the rest of the country is raking leaves while you’re eating dinner on the water.

There’s a fit here beyond the postcard, too. They call San Antonio Military City USA — a town built on institutions that treat uptime and security as non-negotiable. If you’ve read our Security & Compliance section — FIPS-validated crypto, TAA-compliant hardware, 802.1X, SIEM-grade logging — you know the platform speaks that language fluently. This is the right city for this crowd.

The math (you knew we’d do the math)

This site exists because of one number: the ~$250,000 carrier-grade quote that lost to ~$25,000 of bonded gear back in 2008. Training runs on the same math. One engineer who has actually built a hub-and-spoke SpeedFusion topology in a lab — who has watched sub-second failover happen under their own hands — saves you the truck rolls, the misconfigured tunnels, and the 2 a.m. calls that pay for the trip many times over. Networks bond links. Summits bond engineers. Both beat failover.

The Peplink Tech Summit is produced by West Networks — the team behind Peplink University and this library. See you on the river.