Ronny Bull
ABSTRACT
Due to a recent surge of student interest in the field of Voice over IP (VoIP) communications, new and innovative methods were required to be employed in order to keep pace with the increasing enrollment in the Voice Communications course offered at the State University of New York Institute of Technology. The traditional Voice Communications laboratory setup was obsolete and created a bottleneck hindering the students' capability to learn due to increasing class sizes. Under the previous setting, students were required to work in large groups on two shared servers in order to gain hands-on experience. This inevitably caused students to receive unequal portions of hands-on time with the allocated resources. To remedy the aforementioned issues, a centralized virtualization approach was proposed and implemented.
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Index Terms
- Migrating a voice communications laboratory to a virtualized environment
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