Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)
This assignment assesses the following Unit Learning Outcomes; students should be able to demonstrate their achievements in them.
b. Apply socio-technical contexts in modern network applications and management;
c. Utilise common and emerging types of middleware to design and manage networked applications;
Word limit 1000 - 1200
Assignment #01 Description
Instructions:
Students have to select ONE topic each from (Table-1 and Table-2). Read four or more articles about each topic. These articles can be from the web, books or journals. There are numerous web sites available that discuss Network Management and Services. You are expected to list your sources of information at the end of your report.
Task 1
From Table -1, select ONE topic and write a report covering and detailing the areas to be explored including deployment and performance issues of an application, configuration issues, network growth, centralized management etc.
Task 2
From Table -2, select ONE topic and prepare a Power Point presentation. The presentation should have at least 10 slides and students should present for 8 -10 minutes.
Further instructions:
- Do not copy and paste, all slides and the report materials have to be written in your own words.
- Do not use Wikipedia as neither source nor reference.
- Read 2 or 3 articles from the web, books, journals, etc for each topic then rewrite it using your own words.
- Use IEEE style referencing, and be sure and properly reference any diagrams/ graphics.
Table -1 Choose any ONE Topic.
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S.no
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Topic
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Areas to be explored for a topic
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1
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IP Phone for IT
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- A technical overview of the topic.
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Organisations
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- Background and related areas.
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2
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IP Surveillance
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- Deployment and performance issues, Configuration issues
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Cameras
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- Reliability and Availability of an application, Security issues
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3
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H.323 Signalling
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- The significance of the topic to present and future networked
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Protocol
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applications.
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4
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Cisco Discovery
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- Benefits, drawbacks, advantages, disadvantages, remaining problems
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Protocol (CDP)
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and limitations
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- Socio-technical aspects of such applications
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Table -2 Choose any ONE Topic
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S.no
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Topic
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Areas to be explored for a topic
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1
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Platform as a Service (PaaS)
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Explore Cloud Computing resources, Application Development, Cloud Architecture for PaaS, Service availability, Scalability, Deployment and performance issues, Centralized Management Provide examples related to Networked Application Management (NAM).
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2
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Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Explore Cloud Computing resources, Application Development, Cloud Architecture for SaaS, Service availability, Scalability, Deployment and performance issues, Centralized Management, Provide examples related to Networked Application Management (NAM).
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2
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Infrastructure as a Service (laaS)
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Explore Cloud Computing resources, Application Development, Cloud Architecture for laaS, Service availability, Scalability, Deployment and performance Issues, Centralized Management, Provide examples related to Networked Application Management (NAM).
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