Syllabus of Lecture Series

Internet and Africa

See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/helwan.ppt

• The World Cup and Africa
• Impact of Cable Cuts
• Impact of connecting Sri Lanka to TEIN3
• Case study on Pakistan

Internet History, Trends and Futures

See Internet History

How does the Internet Work

See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk09/ictp-perform.ppt

How is the Internet Performing

See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk09/ictp-perform.ppt

• See http://event.on24.com/clients/default/presentation/default.html?titlecolor=000000&eventid=228779&sessionid=1&username=&partnerref=&format=wmaudio&key=8BDA86314FDA5E7498C5560D259119A0&text_language_id=en&playerwidth=930&playerheight=600&eventuserid=38925402&contenttype=A&mediametricsessionid=34698414&mediametricid=592687&usercd=38925402&mode=launch
• Top sources of attacks
• Top traffic sources
• Internet Traffic Growth, capacity and pricing trends see  http://www.bluecoat.com/doc/14454
• Browser share, see http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1
• See http://www.netindex.com/ for Household broadband rates
• Speeds
  • June 23, 2010 Tyco Subcom demos 40-Gbps * 64 ~ 2.65Tbps on fibre pair (4* original design capacity) UK-NJ 6400km.
  • 10Gbps still experimental/bleeding edge, early adopters 2-3 years, what will the reach be?
  • Cf 40-100Gbps see http://www.lightwaveonline.com/networking/video/51932282.html?player=32673423001&title=1709855864
  • Higher speeds being driven by Switched Ethernet Services being used by wireless phone carriers for backhaul. June 24 Verizon trials 100Gbps with Alcatel-Lucent
  • Undersea cables see http://www.pccwglobal.com/network/network-map

Network Measurements

See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk09/ictp-measure.ppt

• Anomaly detection
• Alerting

Measuring the Digital Divide (ppt, video

See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk09/ictp-divide.ppt

Mobile Computing and Mobile Phones

How to Accelerate your Internet

• Policy
• Measurement
• Cloning
  • Hotmail (see work desktop)

Geolocation

See Geolocation

Network problem diagnosis for non-networkers

See Diagosis