TCP/IP Networks: Advanced Topics
- Course overview
- Review of IP essentials
- Network management
- Nature of Internet traffic-heavy tails and implications
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Network control planes
- Criteria for network build out and optimal performance
- Net neutrality and its implications
- Network security
- Nature of threats and how they impact IP networks
- Ways to secure IP traffic
- QoS and IP security
- Secure shell (remote access)
- Using SSH
- SSH basics
- SSH features and architecture
- SSH protocol operation
- SSH in action
- Using MPLS to create Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- Tunneling protocols and PPTP
- Layer 3 MPLS VPNs
- Layer 2 MPLS VPNs
- Advantages/disadvantages of MPLS for VPNs
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Purpose of NAT
- Using NAT
- Four types of NAT
- NAT in action
- Firewalls and packet inspection
- What firewalls do
- Types of firewalls
- DMZs and how they work
- Networx and EIS: The Einstein enclave
- IP security
- IPSec in action
- Introduction to IPSec
- DNS Security
- Security policies and implementations
- Ethernet, SONET and IP
- The layer one-layer two problem
- IP over DWDM?
- High-speed Ethernet
- IP over Ethernet
- Post-SONET Ethernet
- Future network architectures
- VoIP
- Why VoIP has taken over
- Packetized voice
- VoIP protocols
- Ways of implementing VoIP
- Assembling VoIP systems
- Virtualization
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Virtualization on the communications side
- Virtualization on the equipment side
- Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications
- Internet of Things (IoT): What it is, architecture
- Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M): What it is, where it fits, architecture
- The cloud and IP networks
- Brief history
- What it can do and what it is expected to do in future
- How cloud relates to telecom
- The cloud and Networx, EIS
- Emerging network technologies and IP
- Optical Transport Network (OTN)
- Generic Framing Protocol (GFP)
- Next Generation Network (NGN)
- Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON)/Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- IP Multimedia System (IMS)
- What it is, goals
- How it is envisioned to work
- Relationship with other technologies
- Fixed/mobile convergence
- Course Summary
