An Innovative Student Network Laboratory for Teaching, Research and Development for Undergraduate Computer Technology Program

该项目解决了在快速发展的通信技术领域培训工程师和技术人员的主要挑战，包括在网络和通信中使用光子学技术。该项目旨在将光纤网络、ATM局域网和多媒体扩展并集成到桌面。在这个项目的过程中，正在开发几个新的实验，涉及更新的网络技术和集成技术，以支持多媒体到桌面、模拟制造和商业环境。可以探索适用于ATM网络的恢复、容错问题和恢复。应用计算使用面向对象的工具和技术，在客户端/服务器中的快速原型，以及点对点的安排，可以在工作场所和工业环境中使用。正在为各种应用编写本科教科书和实验室书籍，范围从普通的Novell网络问题到更复杂的与TCP/IP和SPX/IPX、ATM局域网环境和无线接口的互连网络问题。学院还为多个异构网络的仿真、协议问题、平衡和恢复等各个方面制作软件程序。这是一个非常创新的项目，原因有二。它集成了多种技术，允许本科生团队为他们的网络规划、设计、配置和选择技术组件。讲师作为多个项目团队的向导和促进者，他们一起工作，以无缝交付最终项目。由于这些网络是独立于校园网设计的，学生可以自由地探索各种架构、产品组合、互联网络和容错/恢复，而不受任何限制或担心干扰其他校园运营。用于分配实验室实验的方法是从本地制造、通信和控制应用中选择工业样本情况，然后确定合适的技术和配置。分配问题并监控其进展，以模拟我们的毕业生在各种环境中遇到的现实问题。每个小组的学生根据对小组的贡献、团队合作和表现来评估彼此。

This project addresses a major challenge in training engineers and technologists in the extremely fast growing area of communications technology, including uses of photonics technology in networking and communications. This project is designed to expand and integrate fiber networks, ATM LANs, and multimedia to the desktop. In the course of this project, several new experiments are being developed, involving newer networking technology and techniques integrating technologies for supporting multimedia to the desktop, for simulated manufacturing, and for business environments. Recovery, fault-tolerance issues, and recovery as it applies to ATM networks can be explored. Applied computing using object-oriented tools and techniques, and rapid prototyping in a client/server, as well as peer-to-peer arrangement, can be introduced as used in workplace and industrial settings. An undergraduate textbook and laboratory books are being produced for a variety of applications, ranging from vanilla flavored Novell networking issues to more complex internetworking issues interfacing with TCP/IP and SPX/IPX, ATM LAN environments, and interfaces to wireless. Faculty are also producing software programs for various aspects of simulation, protocol issues, balancing, and recovery of multiple heterogeneous networks. This is a very innovative project for two reasons. It integrates diverse technologies and allows teams of undergraduate students to plan, design, configure, and choose the technology components for `their network.` The instructor acts as a guide and facilitator for multiple project teams who work together for seamless delivery of final projects. Since these networks are designed independently of the campus network, students are free to explore various architectures, product combinations, internetworking, and fault-tolerance/recovery without any restrictions or fear of disrupting other campus operations. The approach that is used for assigning laboratory experiments is to choose sample situations from industry from local manufacturing, communication, and control applications and then to identify suitable technology and configurations. The problems are assigned and their progress monitored in a way to emulate real-world issues encountered by our graduates in a diversity of settings. Students on each team evaluate each other in terms of contributions to the group, teamwork, and performance.