Networking Concepts & Applications

Readings

• How Internet Infrastructure Works.
  (Follow all pages and any embedded links that interest you.)
• History of the Internet, concise history up to 2000.

Lecture

• Unit Introduction
• Introduction to Network Concepts (50 min.)
  

Readings

• Understanding the Internet
  
• China launches new generation Internet—what will drive the future
  
• America's Love Affair with the Internet

Lecture

• Topologies & Technologies
  • Part 1 ( min.)  
  • Part 2 ( min.)
  • Part 3 ( min.)

Readings and Videos

• Case For a National Broadband Policy
  
• Connection Comparison: Shooting the Messenger
• Warriors of the Net (10 min.)  

Lecture

• Standards and Protocols  

Assigned:
NET Project 1A
Wiki Glossary

Readings

• Internet Freedom and Innovation at Risk
  
• DoJ barges into network neutrality debate
• Bandwidth vs Throughput Overview - used in NET-2 Worksheet)
• About binary and hexadecimal (optional)

Lecture

• Naming and Addressing  
• LAN Addressing  
• IPv6 Addressing (optional)  

Assigned:
Net-2 Worksheet: Bandwidth & Throughput

Google Docs

Optional:
Net-3 Worksheet:
Binary and Decimal Conversions

Resources

• Wikipedia Web browser
  
• Wikipedia Search engine
• Google Docs (3 min.)

Lecture

• Web browsers (no video)
• Optional: Search Engines  (no video)
• Graphical & Hybrid Search Engines
  (13 min.)

Assigned:
Net-4 Worksheet: Review

Readings

• None

Lecture

• NetPoint Video: Files, Folders, and Paths (5 min.)
• File Types and Concepts  
• File Sharing

NET Quiz 1: Networking

Resources

• Wikipedia TELNET
  
• Wikipedia File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  
• Wikipedia Secure Shell (SSH)
  
• Wikipedia File SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
  
• Wikipedia BitTorrent

Lecture

• World is Flat Video (75 min.)

Review this page at the MIT School of Engineering Web site and watch the Thomas Freidman video of a 75-minute lecture he presented drawn from his book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century.

This book is recommended by Sr. Lecturer Bob Larson to everyone starting out in a career. It is available in many formats including CD-ROM.
The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Hardcover: 616 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Expanded and Updated edition (April 18, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0374292795 ISBN-13: 978-0374292799

• Optional: File Transfer Protocol (ftp)  
• Optional: SSH Secure FTP (sftp) 

DUE: NET Project 1A:
Wiki Glossary

Readings and Videos

• Wikipedia email
  
• How E-mail Works (short overview of Internet based emails)
  
• Wikipedia Instant messaging (IM)
  
• How Instant Messaging Works
  
• Wikipedia Wikis
  
• Wikipedia Main Page (English)
  
• How Wikis Work - A wiki hosting site. Look over Features, Examples and Educators tabs
  
• Wikipedia SharePoint
  
• Transform Your Business with Sharepoint
  
• Wikipedia Project Management
  
• Wikipedia Project Management Software
  
• MS Project Standard 2007 Product Guide
  
• Google Apps - Look over, particularly School (applies to non-profits as well)
  
• Information R/evolution (6 min.)  

Lecture

• Email 
• Collaborative Tools 

Resources

• Network Security (Black Box White Paper; good definitions)
• IM Threats at record levels
  
• How It Works Encryption [pdf]
• Virtual Private Networks [pdf]
• Microsoft Understanding Windows Firewall
  XP Users Vista Users
• Spyware vs. Viruses (Trend Micro White Paper)
  
• Spyware Battle (Trend Micro White Paper)

Lecture

• Network Security Overview 
• Security Threats  

Free Anti-Spyware software download for Windows:

• Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5.2

Additional Resources

• Public-key encryption for dummies
• WWW FAQs: What is SSL? Discusses use of public-key encryption by banks, sftp, etc.
• What is public-key encryption? Includes exercises (Warning: Major math ahead!)
• Encryption (5 min.) (optional)
• Better Business Bureau

Lectures and Videos—New! Basis for Quiz 2!

• New! Privacy (42 min. total)
  • Part 1 (1 min.)
    
  • ACLU Pizza Palace (3 min.)
  • Part 2 (27 min.)
  • Avoid ID Theft (10 min.)
  • Part 3 (1 min.)
• New! Security (11 min.)

Assigned:
Net-5 (optional)

Assigned:
NET Project 2 Updated June 2!

Readings

• Developing a Security Policy [pdf] (Dell White Paper - Every organization should have some form of these)
  
• The SANS Security Policy Project (Good information with downloadable policy templates)
• Data Disaster Recovery for Small and Medium Businesses [pdf] (Iron Mountain White Paper)
• Security Absurdity: Total Failure of Information Security [pdf]
  
• Bruce Schneier, Security vs Security Theatre [pdf]

Lecture

• Security Technologies 
• Security Policies (25 min.)   New!
• Security vs. Security Theatre  

Net Quiz 2: Security New!