By Bernard Ku PhD/MBA, Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science

Key Takeaways

• Companies are adopting skills-based strategies to upskill their workforce and stay competitive, e.g. internet-based connectivity with other global partners
• This study plan is to provide a skills-based approach to train ACC students to understand internet-based connectivity in different media communication for outage diagnostics and recovery.
• It can result in more effective talent placement, increase in agility in responding to changes in technology in corporate and government sectors such as cybersecurity.

Implementation of Project as Study Plan at ACC

1. Pair up 10 students with one university in each of eight ten countries

• • Canada/Mexico
  • UK/France
  • Africa/Australia
  • China/Russia

2. Conduct different media communications with peer partners
3. Perform traceroute and record the RTT time in ms
4. Measure the distance from Austin to the specific location in km
5. Plot a graph of internet connectivity of Time as Y Axis and Distance as X – axis
6. Determine any logical relationship between time and distance in different media communications
7. Perform service outage measures at each end and see how traffic recovery via re-routing take place at specific time and location s Y Axis and Distance as X – axis
8. Report recovery time

Project Goals and Benefits to ACC students

• Help students to understand how the world is connected by Global Internet
• Perform diagnostics of internet outage – where is the choke point
• Advance to IP network-based careers
• Advance to Cybersecurity related careers
• Able to collaborate with an EU university for team up project