Expected Outcome: The TCP/IP Technologies Workshop provides students with a comprehensive understanding of TCP/IP and the Internet Protocol Suite.  This course discusses issues relating to hardware & software configuration, network terminology, network performance, problem determination & resolution, application programming, network management & security.  It provides a "big picture" overview of TCP/IP and many of the telecommunications & data communications architectures and protocols it works with.  It provides a hands-on experience, which lets students configure TCP/IP and solve real TCP/IP internetworking problems.  It approaches TCP/IP from a Storage and Data Networking perspective.

What’s exciting about it, why it’s important, where it’s going:  It provides a one-of-a-kind tutorial with an industry subject matter expert who has real-world experience and superior presentation skills.  It provides a vendor-neutral view of storage networking and TCP/IP with a focus leveraging your investment in network infrastructure, existing and future storage and server assets.  It explores the Internet Protocol Suite and Storage Networking from an experienced Data Networker’s perspective.  It takes both a top-down and a bottom’s up approach to Storage’s use of TCP/IP.  It teaches anyone how to implement an intranetwork not only for storage but also for home and business use through both a lecture and a unique problem-solving, hands-on approach.   It explains the technical differences between Fibre Channel and IP Storage and when to use these technologies.  It puts you in position to understand what storage networks can and cannot do for you.  It will make you more knowledgeable in dealing with the plethora of vendors of storage networking products and services.  It takes a “network” view of storage networks yet identifies how storage networks differ fundamentally from other data networks like the Internet.  It takes complex storage networking topics and breaks them down in a simple, easy-to-understand way.