The course Communication Networks II covers the principles and practice of computer networking and telecommunications with emphasis on the Internet. Starting with the history, the course discusses past, current and future aspects of communication networks. In addition to the basic including well known protocols and technologies, recent developments in the area of multimedia communication (e.g. Streaming, VoIP, Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architectures), will be examined thoroughly. 
The course is designed as a self-contained lecture.

Content

• Basics of communication networks
  • Telephone networks, Arpanet
  • Protocols (IP, UDP, TCP, ...)
  • Backbones, Routing
  • ATM, MPLS, ...
  • Ethernet
• Network Mangement
  (VLANS, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, ...)
• Interactive Protocols
  (FTP, Telnet, SSH, ..)
• Electronic Mail
  (Basics and Principles, SMTP, POP3, ..)
• World Wide Web
  (History, HTTP, HTML)
• Virtual Private Networks
  (IPsec, openVPN, ...)
• Streaming
  (Zattoo, YouTube, RTP, ...)
• VoIP & Instant Messaging
  (SIP, Skype, ICQ, QoS, ...)
• Cloud Computing
  (Dropbox, Azurem Amazon, iCloud, ...)
• Service Oriented Architectures
  (WSDL, SOAP, REST, ...)