Training :

• Telecommunications: the market, the major solutions
• Network architectures
• Network technologies
• Security
• The IS infrastructure in 2006
• Web technology and its applications
• XML in the IS
• Web services
• Multi-channel architectures
• Free software
• Portal and content management
• EAI and Urbanisation
• Application servers
• Java technology
• Microsoft's .Net platform
• Data servers
• Overview

This seminar is aimed in particular at IT managers and their immediate staff who wish to obtain the information needed to define IT strategies.

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Telecommunications: the market, the major solutions

- The telecommunications market: voice, data, the traffic and the related income.

- The industry players and standardisation: the traditional players and the newcomers.

- Switching, routing and related solutions (ATM, IP, MPLS).

- Virtual private networks (VPNs).

- The changing influence of players in terms of standardisation and business.

- The impact of deregulation. The legal principles.

- Convergence, its benefits and its limitations.

- The change over to broadband and mobility.

- Ambient Internet.

Network architectures

Access networks

- The change over to broadband.

- xDSL solutions and their evolutions (SDSL, HDSL, VDSL). Voice and image flow rates, distances, and transport. DSLAMs and the transport network.

- Cable-based techniques: Docsis, IEEE 802.14. Modems, cables and HFC.

- The optical local loop: FTTC, FTTH. The principles and the flow rates achieved.

- The emergence of radio networks: Hot-spot WiFi, GPRS-UMTS, and WiMax. Mesh networks.

- The position abroad.

Company networks

- Local network architecture. Wiring, solutions and implementation. The extended family of Fast Ethernet, switched Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet. Which technology for which use? Changing over to virtual networks (VLANs). Switching and routers in the company network. The migration of existing systems to different solutions. Interconnecting with operators' networks.

Operators' networks

- ATM for constructing the core of Frame Relay networks and multi-service networks. Changing over to IP architecture. IP signalling and controls. The introduction of MPLS and label switching. Traffic engineering in operators' networks. The service guarantee. The demand for virtual private networks (VPNs) and the solutions for building them (level 2, 2.5, 3). Content distribution networks (CDNs) and "overlays". Convergence. The economic aspect of networks.

Mobile telephone networks

- Mobility and nomadism: the displacement of the workstation with its software and data.

- Using cellular telephone networks: GSM, GPRS and UMTS. The EDGE solution.

- The mass arrival of local mobile telephone networks. Example of WaveLAN (802.11) and Bluetooth (802.15), ZigBee and UWB.

- Handover, roaming, mobility management.

- WIMAX 802.16 networks, complementarity and the alternative with regard to competition.

- Configuring mobile workstations. IP mobility. IPv4 or IPv6? Security in mobility.

Network technologies

ATM and frame relays

- Frame switching. The protocols used (forwarding, flow and congestion control).

- ATM and service quality.

- Implementation principles. The position of the different operators' networks.

IP technology

- Packet switching. Internet routing (intra-domain and BGP).

- IP, UDP and TCP protocols.

- SMTP, FTP applications, the introduction of Peer-to-Peer. The example of Skype.

- Internet service quality: the DiffServ model.

- Telephony over IP and video transport.

The MPLS solution

- Label switching. Utilizing explicit paths (LSPs).

- LDP, RSVP-TE, CR-LDP protocols.

- Service quality in MPLS. VPN support.

- Comparison with native IP and ATM solutions.

- Position, choice and evolutions of operators' networks.

Overview

- The interaction between networks and applications. Traffic models and their evolutions.

- Application model changes and their impact on the traffic within the Internet and its management.

- Internet metrology, diagnostics.

- What technologies for tomorrow. One solution for different needs or an integration of solutions.

- The social and economic aspect of networks.

- The market and the prospects for change.

- The emergence of new services and multi-media.

- Ambient Internet.

Security

- Security issues: physical architecture, protocols, encoding, organisation.

- From the firewall to the IDS: techniques and limitations.

- Secured VPNs: IPSEC or SSH/SSL.

- Mechanisms for electronic signatures.

- The infrastructures for managing and distributing keys.

- The links between security and service quality.

The IS infrastructure in 2006

- The state of the art in IS infrastructure.

- From the mobile thin client workstation to the centralised server.

- The new operating systems, the new types of workstations, mobile phones and PDAs.

- Expected prospects and changes.

Web technology and its applications

- Internet developments. The changes to be looked for with protocols. The structure of applications on the Web.

- Internet protocols: message services, forums, web, directories (SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, HTTP, LDAP)

- The new protocols, SOAP: operation and issues.

Intranet, universal client-server

- The three-tier architecture, the role of the relay Web server. How to distribute the application components.

- The structuring of documents. The standards: PDF. The place of HTML and DHTML in an Internet/intranet context.

- The limitations of the three Internet standards (HTML, HTTP, CGI). How do you develop, with what tools? Special features of this architecture. The role of the broker, guarantor of performances during ramping up.

XML in the IS

- Presentation of XML, the XSLT transformation engines and the XML parsers (Xalan, Sabloton, etc). Web services, what means for connecting with the existing applications. Methods of communication. XML protocols (SOAP, ebxml, XSLT, Oagis, Rosettanet, XHTML, BPML, UDDI, WSDL). XML impact on call centre and Web applications. XML SGBDs.

Web services

- The principle of Web service defined by W3C.

- SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. Access protocol, mode of operation.

- The offers from the major players and the start-ups in the field of Web services and orchestration.

Multi-channel architectures

- Client/server application in a mobile environment. Deployment in wireless and extended networks.

- Nomadic terminals (PDAs, WebTVs, terminals, etc). Development tools for PDAs.

- Intranet/Mobile gateways (avant go server). Palm Messaging Server architecture. Impact on distributed services. Multi-channel XML impact.

Free software

- Genesis of the main Open Source Software in the market. All the sectors covered.

- The guarantees of security and long life. The impact on workstations. Similarities and differences to non-free software.

- Linux server or client? Apache: a major presence today? Development tools (PHP, Eclipse, etc). Databases (MySQL, Postgres SQL).

- Integrating the company's back-office.

- Is the service age taking over from the software age?

Portal and content management

- What are the features of a company portal? Secured access, open connectors, profile management and parameter setting. The market offers. Positioning, functionalities, specialities (Autonomy, Plumtree, Mediapps, etc).

EAI and Urbanisation

- Enterprise Application Integration: pipe-dream or major axis of the information systems of the future? The market offers. The components of an EAI solution: rules engine, broker, workflow, connectors, development. Hub and Spoke or Network Oriented architecture?

- Positioning, functionalities, specialities. (IBM, Crossworlds, Microsoft, Sopra, Tibco, Web Methods, etc).

Application servers

- Application Intranets and application servers. Features.

- Complete application server offers: WebSphere from IBM, Weblogic from BEA, Iplanet from Sun, Oracle Internet Application Server, etc.

Java technology

- Java, a complete object language. The hardware platform portability concept. Sun's strategy.

- The Java objects communicate with each other (JavaBeans and RMI). Access to databases (JDBC). Security.

- Java APIs and their openness to the IS: JCA, JMS, JNDI, etc.

- The clients and servers use Java. Applets and Servlets.

- Enterprise Java Beans, integrating CORBA.

- The application bus concept. The J2EE platform. Adopting SOAP.

- Design Patterns. Struts logical architecture.

Microsoft's .Net platform

- Microsoft's .Net architecture. Mode of operation and implementation techniques (Framework, Enterprise Server, ASP .Net, Common Language Runtime, etc). Why Microsoft's middleware object approach is so successful. Windows 2000, the technical advances.

Data servers

SGBDs in 2005

- The market and the offers, the orientations of the major players (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft). The pressure from Open Source.

User-oriented systems

- Types of multi-dimensional storage (MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP). The client tool families: relational query tools, EIS, Data mining.

- How do you handle large volumes? Dedicated architectures.

- Special modelling techniques. Star or snowflake schema.

DataWeb

- The thin client offers from the suppliers. Openness to new user populations. The Push model. The under-lying technologies and their impact on deployment and security.

Overview

- The future orientations for technologies. Conclusions.

- Operational case studies. Bibliography, glossary.