We also need to get your correct email address. General Course Description Cooperative design and development of a sizable and realistic computer network system. Exploration of the full system lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and evaluation. Design software, collaboration tools, and design methodologies. Roles and skills of the system developer, including project leadership, quality control, shared responsibilities, and oral presentation and defense of the approach and product.
External experts present successful techniques and cases for large system design projects.
Using PC hardware, students will implement a family of required network modules for functions such as traffic shaping, policing, metering, and tunneling, and integrate these functions in the final systems. Pierce Hall Rm 403 will host these experimental network hosts and nodes. Lectures and student questions will be broadcast synchronously. Some students will work in project teams with participants from both schools and will use video conferencing technology to communicate with each other outside of the classroom. Professor Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School will lead three discussion sessions on business issues related to information technology.