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Syllabus — Routing and Switching

Year I, Part II — MSNCS, IOE Pulchowk, Tribhuvan University. 4 credits.

Chapter 1 — Cyber Security and IT Governance (10 marks)​

  • 1.1 Digital Transformation and Cyber Security Issues
  • 1.2 Information Security with Rubik Cube Model
  • 1.3 Information Technology Service Management (ITSM)
  • 1.4 Information Security Management Framework
  • 1.5 Information Technology Governance
  • 1.6 Framework of ICT Policy, Procedures and Guidelines

Chapter 2 — Converged Network Design Guidelines (10 marks)​

  • 2.1 Converged Network Design Guidelines
  • 2.2 Network Foundation Protection Framework
  • 2.3 Review of IP Networks (IPv4 and IPv6)
  • 2.4 Cross Layer Protocol Engineering
  • 2.5 Network Planning and Documentation
  • 2.6 Building Network Terms of Reference (ToR) and Access Network Design Guidelines

Chapter 3 — Enterprise Routing and Packet Forwarding (12 marks)​

  • 3.1 Enterprise Network Architecture with Fault Tolerance, Scalability, QoS and Security
  • 3.2 Enterprise Network Case studies
  • 3.3 Interior and Exterior Routing
  • 3.4 Enterprise Routing Architecture (Homogeneous/Heterogeneous)
  • 3.5 Policy Based Routing
  • 3.6 Routing with IPv6
  • 3.7 Principles of segment routing
  • 3.8 Introduction to routing and switching over SDN and Quantum Networks
  • 3.9 Multi-path routing and load balancing techniques
  • 3.10 Predictive analytics for proactive routing

Chapter 4 — Enterprise Local Area Network (10 marks)​

  • 4.1 Enterprise Local Area Network Architecture
  • 4.2 Virtual LAN (VLAN), VLAN Trunking Protocol
  • 4.3 Inter VLAN Routing Protocol
  • 4.4 Enterprise LAN Security
  • 4.5 Load Balancing Protocols
  • 4.6 Link Aggregation Technologies and Protocols

Chapter 5 — Enterprise-Wide Area Networks (10 marks)​

  • 5.1 Enterprise-Wide Area Network Architecture
  • 5.2 Network Address Translation (NAT)
  • 5.3 Introduction to Virtual Private Networks
  • 5.4 Formulation of VPN Policy
  • 5.5 Site to site IPSec VPN
  • 5.6 GRE over IPSec VPN
  • 5.7 Dynamic Multipoint VPN
  • 5.8 Real-time network monitoring and analytics

Chapter 6 — Emerging Trends in Switching and Routing (8 marks)​

  • 6.1 Routing and switching in edge networks
  • 6.2 Drivers of change: IoT, cloud computing, and edge computing
  • 6.3 Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Software Defined Infrastructure
  • 6.4 NFV and SDN deployment challenges and benefits
  • 6.5 Network segmentation and micro-segmentation trends
  • 6.6 Blockchain on network routing and security
  • 6.7 Fundamentals of quantum routing and switching
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