MHRD/AICTE Staff Development Programme:Short Course 2010-Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
2010 Short Term Course on Telecommunication Networks with State-of-the-Art Hands-on Experiments by Deptt. of Electronics and Electrical Commn. Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Research on telecommunication systems started in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E&ECE) at IIT Kharagpur in early fifties. From the last century following 2nd world war, the whole world has witnessed an all-pervasive growth in the technology of telecommunication networks. IIT Kharagpur has also followed this advancement and continued to make its own contributions through teaching as well as research activities in this area. Recently, realizing the needs for hands-one training in this area to bridge the gap between theory and practice, E&ECE Department has developed a State-of-the-Art Laboratory under the FIST programme of DST, Govt. of India. The laboratory has been setup with a wide range of modern telecommunication equipments, including IP routers, Ethernet and ATM switches, ISDN and EPABX systems, ADMs as SDH nodes, wireless access points, network access control and intrusion detection software, etc., This networking infrastructure is used across the department building to form in-house network test-beds with different possible practical topological formations, with which our students carry out wide range of experimentations on networking concepts. To share the fallouts and benefits of this rare networking facility at IIT Kharagpur, we have designed this short-term course, sponsored by AICTE. The proposed 10-days-long comprehensive training would consist of theory and laboratory classes going hand-in-hand. Thus, the short-term course will offer, along with stimulating lectures in the area, a rare opportunity to gather a hands-on experience on how telecommunication networks are formed in practice and, how data, voice and video are transferred between heterogeneous networks therein, through Ethernet, router, ATM, SDH based networking infrastructures. The course will also provide a forum for professional interaction between the IIT community and others, which would hopefully lead to useful research collaboration amongst the participating organizations in due course of time.
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