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MET Lab
The MET program provides students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience through the MET Networking Lab and the Service Creation Lab.
The MET Networking Lab contains firewalls, servers, routers, switches and access technologies that allow the student to experiment with a variety of network scenarios. The MET core courses include experiments that introduce the student to the basic networking technologies. The Networking Lab is also used by MET students in their case studies and projects.
The Networking Lab includes the following equipment and protocols:
- LAN: Hubs, Layer 2 Switches, Multi-layer Switches, Multi-Media Switches, 802.11 access points
- Routers: Integrated Routers, Voice-grade Routers, ATM Routers, Linux Routers
- WAN: Basic Rate and Primary Rate ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM
- Wireless Access: Orinoco Access Points, Chantry Beaconmaster and Access Points
- Terminal Devices: wireless laptops, wireless PDAs, wireless Desktop NICs, VoIP phones, Cable Modems, Terminal Servers
- Multimedia: SIP, H.323, VoIP, CTI and PBX
- Firewalls: PIX firewall, Linux firewall, 802.11 security
The Service Creation Lab, which resides in the Nortel Institute, contains high performance computing equipment for the investigation and development of the next generation of network-based services and applications. The lab equipment is currently being renewed and will include high-density blade server systems, an array of approximately 64 PCs, and high-speed network interconnection between the servers, the PCs, and the Networking Lab. The lab will support web services, voice-XML, SIP, peer-to-peer and overlay networking, and gateways between Internet and the telephone and cellular networks.
  
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