Description:

Students learn advanced networking technologies and protocols for both local area networks and wide area networks. They get acquainted with routing techniques and transfer technologies of modern internet, including multimedia data transfer, with various types of network virtualization, and with last-mile security.

Contents:

1. Architecture of VoIP systems, codecs, and signaling for VoIP systems.
2. Collaboration of VoIP systems with other analog and digital technologies.
3. 3-tier design of computer network architecture: Service Oriented Network Architecture.
4. 3-tier design of computer network architecture: Data Plane, Control Plane, Management Plane.
5. Modern switching technologies: VLAN and private VLAN.
6. Routing in internet, redistribution of directions and their problems.
7. Hybrid label switch-router, topological, routing, and switching tables.
8. NBMA (Non Broadcast Multiple Access).
9. MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching).
10. BGP (Border Gateway Protocol).
11. IPSec, VPN, multipoint VPN.
12. Quality of Service (QoS) in computer networks.
13. Software defined networks (SDN).

Seminar contents:

1. Complex routing
2. IPv6
3. IPSec VPN
4. BGP
5. MPLS
6. NBMA - FR

Recommended literature:

1. Stallings, W. : Data and Computer Communications (10th Edition). Prentice Hall, 2013. ISBN 0133506487.
2. Aracil, J. - Callegati, F. (Eds.) : Enabling Optical Internet with Advanced Network Technologies. Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84882-278-8.
3. Van Beijnum, I. : BGP. Building Reliable Networks with the Border Gateway Protocol. O?Reilly Media, 2002. ISBN 978-0-596-00254-1.
4. W. A. Flangan : VoIP and Unified Communications: Internet Telephony and the Future Voice Network. Wiley, 2012. ISBN 1118019210.

Keywords:

modern internet technologies, scalable networks, traffic monitoring, traffic management, traffic shaping, switch-routing, realtime networks, network design, service level agreement

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar