1. IP Infrastructure for Service Providers and High-Availability Applications - Connecting to the public Internet, including routing policy, obtaining address space, designing and implementing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and scalable interior routing. Multicast and quality of service (QoS) enabled routing. Switching to support transparent failover.
2. Strategic & Tactical Network Management, Operations Support Systems and Emergency Communications - Initial and continuing capacity planning. Network security policy, firewall, secure VPNs. Trouble ticketing systems and network operations centers. Public safety / medical networks and services to complement the E911 component of Telco networks. Network Management using FreeBSD and SuSe Linux for logging, protocol analysis, and trending/capacity planning with mrtg, ntop, ntop+netflow, ehnt, and ManageEngine's Netflow Analyzer
3. Last Mile & Second Mile Converged Networks -
Wired and wireless broadband. Triple-play data, voice and