Data Communications/Networking Laboratory

该项目的目的是装备一个实验室，在网络课程的学生可以完成练习，并通过讲座和讨论，提高课堂学习进行实验。该实验室被用作开发和改进一套适当的练习和实验的设施，然后可以与本科阶段的计算机科学教师分享。 网络在计算中扮演着越来越重要的角色。分布式系统正在取代集中式计算设施。这种范式转变对课程的影响并不比数据通信和网络领域的影响大。 从小型机和大型机的世界到工作站、局域网和广域网的变化必须反映在计算机科学课程中。新的实验室解决了这一变化的硬件和软件方面。 作为这种转变的结果，雇主对他们雇用的学生的网络专业知识的需求和期望越来越高。此外，研究生水平的课程和研究越来越多地致力于网络和分布式系统。实验为学生提供了在课堂上概念性讨论的具体例子。学生还获得了宝贵的熟悉硬件和软件产品，他们可能会在他们未来的职业生涯或研究情况下工作。

The intent of this project is to equip a laboratory in which students in networking courses can complete exercises and perform experiments that enhance the classroom learning occurring through lectures and discussions. This laboratory is being used as a facility for developing and refining a set of appropriate exercises and experiments which may then be shared with computer science teachers at the undergraduate level. Networking is assuming an increasingly central role in computing. Distributed systems are displacing centralized computing facilities. This paradigm shift has no greater impact on the curriculum than in the area of data communications and networking. The change from a world of minis and mainframes to workstations, LANs, and WANs must be reflected in the computer science curriculum. The new lab addresses both the hardware and the software aspects of this change. As a consequence of this shift, employers have an increased need for and a high expectation of networking expertise on the part of the students that they hire. Also, coursework and research at the graduate level are increasingly devoted to networks and distributed systems. The lab provides the students with concrete examples of things discussed conceptually in the lecture. The students also gain valuable familiarity with hardware and software products that they may be working with in their future careers or research situations.