TLEN 5462

Advanced Telecommunications Lab Syllabus Instructor: Jose R. Santos

ITP Lab Office: ECEE 275B Address: University of Colorado Boulder Phone: 303-735-0102 1111 Engineering Drive, Email: Jose.Santos@Colorado.edu ECOT 318, UCB 530 Boulder, CO 80309-0530

Assistants: Todd Strong (Todd.Strong@colorado.edu) Lecture Timings: Thursday 11:30AM to 2:30PM Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00PM to 5:00PM Course Description

Presents advanced networking design and implementation techniques through experiments with network measurement equipment, switches, routers, and management interfaces. The course primarily focuses on data center technologies for capacity, scalability and fault tolerance as well as VPN transport services based on MPLS. Students will learn the essential network architectures of cloud computing, network and system survivability.

Each experiment focuses on some particular aspect of system management, development, or maintenance. Procedures require the use of actual commercial equipment, services, observation, reporting of behavior, and performance, compared to specified requirements. Along with implementation techniques student will also develop the ability to understand the externalities associated with efficient network design.

An additional 8-10 hours of unscheduled lab time is required.

Please note: Student teams and laboratory periods for the remainder of the semester will be established during the first class lecture meeting. Prerequisites TLEN 5460 Telecommunications System Lab or Instructor’s approval

Reference Book(s) Required:

• Odom and Cavanaugh, Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide, 2nd ed., Cisco Press, 2005, ISBN-10: 1-58720-124-0, ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-124-0.

• Hucaby, CCNP Switch 642-813 Official Certification Guide. • Nucci and Papagiannaki, Design, Measurement and Management of Large-Scale IP

Networks: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN-10: 0521880696, ISBN-13: 978-0521880695.

Optional:

• Lakshman and Lobo, MPLS Configuration on Cisco IOS Software,Cisco Press, 2005, ISBN-10: 1587051990, ISBN-13: 978-1587051999.

Reference:

• Pepelnjak and Guichard, MPLS and VPN architectures, Cisco Press, 2008, ISBN 1-58705-002-1

• Evans and Filsfils, Deploying IP and MPLS QoS for Multiservice Networks: Theory & Practice,Morgan Kaufmann Press, 2007, ISBN-10: 0123705495, ISBN-13: 978-0123705495.

Hardware/Software:

• VMWare Player, active Internet connection, active email account, Skype account Course Objectives To obtain practical experience that builds on the theoretical understanding acquired in other course and to gain hands on experience with various networking gear. Course Policy (1) The Boulder Provost’s Disability Task Force recommended syllabus statement: If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability, please submit to your professor a letter from Disability Services in a timely manner (for exam accommodations provide your letter at least one week prior to the exam) so that your needs can be addressed. Disability Services determines accommodations based on documented disabilities. Contact Disability Services at 303-492-8671 or by e-mail at dsinfo@colorado.edu. If you have a temporary medical condition or injury, see Temporary Injuries under Quick Links at Disability Services website ( http://disabilityservices.colorado.edu/) and discuss your needs with your professor.

(2) It is the responsibility of every instructor to clearly explain his or her procedures about absences

due to religious observances in the course syllabus so that all students are fully informed, in writing, near the beginning of each semester’s classes. Campus policy regarding religious observances states that faculty must make reasonable accommodation for them and in so doing, be careful not to inhibit or penalize those students who are exercising their rights to religious observance. Faculty should be aware that a given religious holiday may be observed with very different levels of attentiveness by different members of the same religious group and thus may require careful consideration to the particulars of each individual case. See http://www.colorado.edu/policies/fac_relig.html

If you have questions about providing students with religious accommodations, please contact the Office of Discrimination and Harassment at 303-492-2127.

A comprehensive calendar of the religious holidays most commonly observed by CU-Boulder students is at http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/ Recommended syllabus statement:

Campus policy regarding religious observances requires that faculty make every effort to deal reasonably and fairly with all students who, because of religious obligations, have conflicts with scheduled exams, assignments or required attendance. In this class if any student requires special assistance, he/she should inform the professor in the first week of the class.

See full details at http://www.colorado.edu/policies/fac_relig.html

(3) Faculty and students should be aware of the campus ‘Classroom Behavior’ policy at

http://www.colorado.edu/policies/classbehavior.html as well as faculty rights and responsibilities listed at

http://www.colorado.edu/FacultyGovernance/policies/Professional_Rights_and_Duties.pdf

These documents describe examples of unacceptable classroom behavior and provide information on how to handle such circumstances should they arise. Faculty are encouraged to address the issue of classroom behavior in the syllabus.

Recommended syllabus statement:

Students and faculty each have responsibility for maintaining an appropriate learning environment. Those who fail to adhere to such behavioral standards may be subject to discipline. Professional courtesy and sensitivity are especially important with respect to individuals and topics dealing with differences of race, color, culture, religion, creed, politics, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and gender expression, age, disability, and nationalities. Class rosters are provided to the instructor with the student's legal name. I will gladly honor your request to address you by an alternate name or gender pronoun. Please advise me of this preference early in the semester so that I may make appropriate changes to my records. See policies at http://www.colorado.edu/policies/classbehavior.html and at

http://www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/code.html#student_code

(4) The Office of Discrimination and Harassment recommends the following syllabus statement:

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) is committed to maintaining a positive learning, working, and living environment. The University of Colorado does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status in admission and access to, and treatment and employment in, its educational programs and activities. (Regent Law, Article 10, amended 11/8/2001). CU-Boulder will not tolerate acts of discrimination or harassment based upon Protected Classes or related retaliation against or by any employee or student. For purposes of this CU-Boulder policy, "Protected Classes" refers to race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or veteran status. Individuals who believe they have been discriminated against should contact the Office of Discrimination and Harassment (ODH) at 303-492-2127 or the Office of Student Conduct (OSC) at 303-492-5550. Information about the ODH, the above referenced policies, and the campus resources available to assist individuals regarding discrimination or harassment can be obtained at http://hr.colorado.edu/dh/

(5) The Boulder campus has a student Honor Code and individual faculty members are expected to familiarize themselves with its tenets and follow the approved procedures should violations be perceived. The campus has been working diligently to make this process work better and to provide guidance on ‘gray areas’ to be helpful to both faculty and students at the Honor website. The Honor Council recommended syllabus statement:

All students of the University of Colorado at Boulder are responsible for knowing and adhering to the academic integrity policy of this institution. Violations of this policy may include: cheating, plagiarism, aid of academic dishonesty, fabrication, lying, bribery, and threatening behavior. All incidents of academic misconduct shall be reported to the Honor Code Council (honor@colorado.edu; 303-735-2273). Students who are found to be in violation of the academic integrity policy will be subject to both academic sanctions from the faculty member and non-academic sanctions (including but not limited to university probation, suspension, or expulsion). Other information on the Honor Code can be found at http://www.colorado.edu/policies/honor.html and at http://honorcode.colorado.edu

Course Schedule (Subject to Change)

Week 1 Lecture: Overview of Network Analysis, Architecture and Design

Lab session: Layer 2 and Layer 3 lab refresher Week 2 Lecture: LAN: Campus Network Design Lab Session: Enterprise LAN Switching Techniques Week 3 Lecture: LAN: Fault Tolerant Networks 1 Lab Session: Ethernet resiliency Week 4 Lecture: LAN: Fault Tolerant Networks 2 Lab Session: High Availability and Load Balancing Techniques

Week 5 Lecture: VMware networking Lab Session: VMware Switching, Nexus 1000v, Multi-homing, NIC bundling, Trunking

Week 6 Lecture: Network Optimization Lab Session: LAN QoS Week 7 Lecture: Congestion Management on Network Components

Lab Session: Compression, Queuing and Traffic Shaping

Week 8 Lecture: WAN: End to end QoS Solutions Lab Session: Intserv, Diffserv, Compression and other link efficiency tools

Week 9 Lecture: Midterm Review Session Lab Session: Midterm Practical Examination Week 10 Lab Session: Midterm Practical Examination Week 11 Lecture: Layer 2 and 2 ½ Transport technologies Lab Session: MPLS TDP Week 12 Lecture: WAN: Traffic Engineering Lab Session: MPLS TE Week 13 Lecture: WAN: VPN and Tunneling services 1 Lab Session: MPLS L2 and L3 VPNs, GRE and L2TP

Week 14 Lecture: Final Review Session Lab Session: Practice Week Week 15 Lecture: Final Written Examination Lab Session: Final Practical Examination

Grading Policy: Weekly Quizzes: 20% Weekly Labs: 20% Weekly Homework: 20% Midterm Practical: 30% Final Written: 10%