Network Architecture - All aspects of, and tasks related to,
requirements analyses, design, engineering, or management
of networks to include evaluation of applicability of
technologies, services, products.
Network Security - Ensuring that network operations are not
disrupted by malicious or unintended circumstances.
Deployment of appropriate security mechanisms to include
behavior tracking, authentication, accreditation, response
measures, and audit.
Network Management - Understanding, specifying and/or
evaluating tools, applications and devices to assist
human network managers in monitoring and maintaining networks.
Modeling and Simulation - Using tools, collecting data, and
performing analyses to simulate networks to predict network
behavior for networks of different sizes and compositions.
Network Assessment - Monitoring network performance and
predicting pending dynamic bottlenecks or other fault
conditions to trigger operator alerts or automatic responses.
Routing and Switching - Assessing, evaluating, researching,
planning, developing network routing or switching
technologies/protocols to include QoS, multicast, MPLS, IPv6.
