Course Instructor: Razavan  Deaconescu

Syllabus:

The Advanced Services for ISPs provides students with know-how and skills regarding technologies deployed in large networks and service providers.

The knowledge is complemented by the in-depth skills of designing, configuring, troubleshooting and optimizing computer systems, services and computer networks. Students will gain skills in integrating advanced components for system and network services and ensuring their scalability and reliability.

The lectures and labs will tackle concepts in areas such as virtualization, network monitoring, storage management, traffic control and high availability.

After completing the course, students will have gained knowledge and skills useful for choosing between various solutions for providing scalable services, implementing a complete monitoring solution for a complex computer network and designing and implementing virtualization solutions that ensure scalable and highly available services.

On the practical side, during lab sessions we will tackle applications for virtualization, monitoring, traffic control and other ISP-specific components. Considering system administration and management, the practical side will include installing, configuring and debugging modern virtualization solutions, providing high availability and scalability to computer systems and automating administrative tasks and improving activities in practical topics. Considering communication and computer system interaction, we will provide in-depth look at topics such as securing configurations and connections at system or network level and implementing security and interoperability solutions between systems.

All class resources are available at http://elf.cs.pub.ro/saisp/