Recent Advances in Computer Networking including ATM, Multimedia, Wireless, and Residential Broadband
The field of networking is growing exponentially both in terms of deployment and in development of new technologies. This makes makes it difficult for most technical professionals to keep abreast of new developments.
This 1-day seminar is designed to give technical professionals an overview of recent advances in networking. The seminar begins with an discussion of trends in networking and then provides an overview of new developments and technical issues in topics that are being hotly debated in the networking community.
Contents:
- Networking Trends (0.75 hrs):
- Exponential Growth
- Technology Curve
- Impact of Standardization
- Trends in traffic
- Trends in Topology
- ATM Networks (1.5 hrs):
- Overview
- History
- Addressing vs Labels
- Protocol Structure
- Classes of Traffic
- ATM Adaptation Layers
- LAN Emulation
- Physical Layers
- Further Sources of Information
- High Speed Networking Challenges (0.75 hr):
- Networking Success and Failures
- Key ingredients for Success
- Diseconomy of scale
- High Performance
- Key for ATM to succeed
- Multimedia Networks (1.5 Hrs):
- Video Formats
- Compression Fundamentals
- JPEG, MPEG, H.261
- Multimedia over IP
- Sources for Further Information
- Wireless Networks (1.5 Hrs):
- Mobile vs Wireless
- Wireless LANs
- Infrared, Radio, vs Spread Spectrum Technologies
- Wireless WANs
- IP Mobile Host Protocol
- Sources for Further Information
- Residential Broadband (1 Hr)
- High Speed Networking Access to Home
- Cable Modems
- HFC, FTTC, FTTH
- ADSL, VDSL technologies
- Sources for Further Information
Presentation slides in adobe acrobat format
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