We considered delivering the course around a collection of assignments that focus on some of the areas of networking that we think every student taking a networking course should be exposed to.

1. A client server based application. Examples:
   • Web server or proxy
   • FTP
   • Video streaming (RTP, RTSP) RFC 2326
2. A map reduce type problem
   • tackles the problem of scale
3. An application built upon a distributed key/value store
   • Redis
   • Tokyo Cabinet or Kyoto Cabinet
4. A mobile device application that uses one or more networked data sources
   • i.e. some sort of mashup.

Issues to address in the teaching:

• Fairness
• Efficiency
• Flow Control
• Reliability

Buzzwords - ideas:

• Cloud
• Mobile
• Client/server
• Video
• Sip
• Google Authentication
• Shibboleth
• zeromq