My understanding of networking principles used to be somewhat good. Now I have forgotten a number of things. Thursday night, I learned about the importance of picking the ISP your school will use and the kind of bandwidth you pay for. I also learned that fiber wire in our wiring closets provides no speed advantage over copper wire. Furthermore, I deepened my understanding of the firewall and its difference from the content filter infrastructure (though I want to follow up on this also).
I also found the talk by Robert Metcafe exciting.
As for what I am unclear on or what I would like to see discussed further in class, I would mention the following:
Discuss what goes into the wiring of a building and some of the options someone who oversees that process has.
Further explication of some of the tools one can use to monitor the network and/or the use of remote management tools.
Setting up and managing an email system.
2 comments:
I agree, I would love to learn about all of those three things! I don't know anything about networking. I would find the topic of setting up an e-mail system really interesting.
I have not had pleasure of installing internet cables in school buildings before but I have observed the process. Basically a guy from electrical company is hired and brings in a roll of ~20-30 100 feet ethernet cables that he runs all over the building. It's better to run more cables just in case the school will need extra connections in the future. This all is connected to a router switch in a building. It's a long and boring process. Then IT is responsible for numbering each router port with a cable that runs into a particular ethernet port in a classroom. Again long and boring process.
The email is even worse. You have to have a good and fast server to process thousands of requests per hour if not a minute. Configure filters, spam and security services. Have to worry about file size limitations, backing up the server. It's a crazy job.
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