Timetable and location
- Sessions will be held on Wednesdays 17:15 - 19:00 in the lecture
hall S4 on the second floor of Electrical and Communications Engineering
Department of Helsinki University of Technology.Note:
Changed lecture time!!
The address is Otakaari 5A. From Helsinki city center Kamppi bus terminal bus 102 takes about 15 minutes to the door of the department.
Lecture Program 1999:
An exact schedule of the lectures is found here.First lecture will take place on 22nd September and the seminar consists
of 10 sessions, so the lecture on 1st of December
will conclude the 1999 course.
Passing the course
There are three versions to this course. You can take it for 1 credit, 3 credits or 4 credits.Due to reorganization within Tellabs inc, the final lecture of the series (on 8th of December) is re-scheduled to Autumn 2000 course. This causes some change in the current course requirements. Instead of 9 required attendances out of 11, you need to have minimum of 8 returned and accepted homeworks out of 10 in order to succesfully complete the course.
The requirements for each of these versions are detailed below.
- 1 cr.: You must attend at least 8 of the lectures and do the homeworks for these lectures.
- 3 cr.: Minimum 8 lectures (with homework) + a basic literature examination
- 4 cr.: Minimum 8 lectures (with homework) + an advanced literature examination
- The basic literature examination (in the 3 cr. version) can be substituted with a summary/referate. (More info below)
Homework
Homework description:The task is to sum up the contents of each lecture into two questions and to answer those questions. The questions should reflect a deeper understanding of the subject, and answering them should not require any other information on the subject than that presented in the lectures. Answers should be no longer than 100 to 200 words per question.
Return of the homework: The homework of each lecture is to be returned before the beginning of the next seminar session via e-mail in ASCII format in the body of the message (no attachments) to the address Jari.Renko@hut.fi and only to this address.
Sending homework to some other address in our lab (to other course assistants or the Professor) will not constitute a returned homework. Returning Homework after the deadline will not constitute an accepted homework.
The subject of the message should read "Homework X", where X stands for the session number. Remember to include your name, your student number and session number in the beginning of the message.
Language of the homework is English.
On the examination
New!!Change in the literature examination info. Due to overwhelming popular demand :-) , an additional literature examination date has been set. You can take the literature exmination for the Autumn 1999 Telecommunications Forum, for 3 or 4 study credits, on:
7th of February 2000, 17.00 hrs at lecture hall S4 (advance sign-up
required)
and
17th of May 2000, 9.00 hrs at lecture hall S4 (advance sign-up required)
Basic examination (3 cr) The book "ISP survival guide" is the basis for the literature examination. The chapters 1,2,4,5,9,10,11,12,13,15,16 are included. You will be provided with a list of possible questions on the subjects in advance, to help with the studying. The examination consists of three (3) of these questions. The studying for this examination should prapare you to be conversant on the various aspects of the Internet Service Providing technology. The view is semi-technical.
Advanced examination (4 cr) The book "ISP survival guide" is the basis for the literature examination. The chapters 1,2,4,5,9,10,11,12,13,15,16 (same as in the Basic Examination)) are included. You will be provided with a list of possible questions on the subjects in advance, to help with the studying. The examination consists of three (3) of these questions. There will be an additional, fourth, question, outside of the pre-disclosed questions. Studying for this examination should prepare you to understand the technical aspects of ISP-business on a more technical level than the preparation for the Basic Examination.
Successful answer for "extra question" will make you eligible for 4 study credits from this course.
Haphazard, incomplete or otherwise unsuccesful answer to the "extra question" will not make you eligible for 4 study credits from this course. Those attempting for the extra credit, but clearly not prepared for that, will get only 3 credits for this course, even if otherwise succesful in the examinaion .
On the Referates
You can substitute the Basic Examination with a written referate. This referate will distill the basic message, ideology and basic concepts of the source-book into a 10-20 pages (covers, appendixes, indexes not included) of written report. A good referate will display deep understanding of the subject matter, a good control of the English language and will not be a "copy-paste" version of some chapters of the book. The deadline of the Referate is 17th of January 2000 at 16:00. The format of the referate is an envelope that contains both a printed out version and a 3.5" PC-disk containing the referate in Microsoft Word- format.Referate will be returned by dropping it into cubical "post boxes" adjacent to the Information Board of the Course. The information Board can be found opposite the Laboratory of Telecommunications technology.
Students outside greater Helsinki area may return their referates via mail. The address is:
Jari Renko / Telecom Forum
Lab. of Telecommunications Technology
P.O. Box 3000
FIN-02015 HUT
You may select one of three books to be the source for your referate:
1) Liberating
Cyberspace : Civil Liberties, Human Rights & the Internet
by Jonathan Cooper (Editor) (sometimes referred to as Liberty)
Can be purchased via www.bokus.com
(124 FIM)
2) Risky
Business : Protect Your Business from Being Stalked, Conned, or Blackmailed
on the Web
by Daniel S. Janal
Can be purchased via Amazon (20$
+ shipping) or Bokus (241 FIM)
3) Isp Survival Guide : Strategies for Running a Competitive Isp (Referate
will cover the same parts of the book that are detailed for the examination)
by Geoff Huston
The
book can be purcased via Amazon.com
(35.99 USD + shipping))or Bokus.com
(310 FIM).
On selecting between Referate and the Examination
If one wishes to come out of the course with a more "Studia Generalia"- kind of experience, the referate is the recommended method of meeting the requirements (3 cr).If one wishes to have more of an "hands on"- experience, maybe with some added technical know-how, the Basic Examination is recommended (3 cr).
If one wishes to have a technical view, with some insight into ISP Business,
and the technical aspects that set bound for it, it is recommended that
one studies the "ISP Survival Guide" with some effort and insight and takes
the Advanced Examination for 4 credits.
Video Conferencing
The lecture series will be available thru conventional ISDN Video Conferencing system.Video Conferencing services will be provided by the Dipoli Lifelong Learning Institute. Contact Kristiina.Gustafsson@dipoli.hut.fi for reservations in the ISDN-bridge of the Service-provider. Kristiina can also be reached by phone (p 09-4511 4027 / GSM 050-555 4079).
Things she will ask you are:
- The ISDN number of your Videoconferencing studio.
- Contact information for your Video-conferencing technical support person
- Your billing address
- On which dates you wish to be telepresent in the seminar
Video Conferencing via the Internet
The course is piloting with a method of making the lectures available via Internet / MBONE multicast. This is primarily targeted at sites having either vary fast connections to the FUNET or being part of the FUNET themselves. (Universities etc.)
Technical details on the pilot can be found here.)
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