Telecommunications: market, major solutions

• The telecommunications market: voice, data, traffic.
• The industry players and standardisation.
• The impact of deregulation. The legal principles.

Network architectures

Network technologies

Security

• Issues: physical architecture, protocols, encoding, organisation. From the firewall to the IDS.
• Secured VPNs: IPSEC or SSH/SSL.
• Mechanisms for digital signatures.
• The infrastructures for managing and distributing keys.

The IS infrastructure

• The state of the art. From the thin client workstation to the centralised server.
• The new operating systems, the new types of workstations, mobile phones and PDAs.

Web technology and its applications

• Internet developments. Structure of applications.
• The three-tier architecture. Application components.
• The structuring of documents. PDF, XHTML, Web 2.0.
• RIA Technologies (Flex, Flash, Silverlight, Java), RDA (Air, JavaFX), HTML5, xHTML. The trends.
• What are the features of a company portal? Secured access, open connectors, profile management and parameter setting. Th

XML and Web services

• Presentation of XML, the XSLT transformation engines and the XML parsers (Xalan, Sabloton, etc). XML SGBDs Web service
• The principle defined by the W3C. SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. Access protocol, mode of operation. The products offer.

Open Source software

• Genesis of the main Open Source Software.
• The guarantees of security and long life.
• Linux server or client? Apache. Development (PHP, Eclipse, etc.). Databases (MySQL, PostgresSQL). CMS.

EAI and Urbanisation

• Enterprise Application Integration. The market offers. The components of an EAI solution.

Application servers

• Application Intranet and application servers. Features.
• Application server offers: IBM, Oracle...
• Cloud Computing Architectures: Private et Public.

Java and .Net technologies

• The hardware platform portability concept. JavaBeans and RMI. Access to databases (JDBC). Java APIs. The JEE platform.
• Microsoft's .Net architecture. Framework, Enterprise Server, ASP .Net, Common Language Runtime, etc. Why Microsoft's mid

Data servers

• The market and the offers, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft.
• User-oriented systems.Types of multi-dimensional storage (MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP). The client tool families.
• DataWeb. The under-lying technologies.