1. Hardware Design
   1. chipset?
      1. Chipset evaluation
         1. FPGA, PLS etc
            1. Xilinx
            2. Alterra
         2. Microprocessor
            1. Motorola
         3. Router
            1. Broadcom
            2. Intel
            3. Marvell
   2. socket?
      1. board?
         1. Layout
            1. 3rd party
   3. power supply?
      1. Component evaluation
         1. National
      2. Characteristics
         1. Efficiency
            1. Heat
   4. clocks?
      1. PLC
      2. Characteristiscs
         1. Drift
         2. Skew
         3. Shape
   5. transmission lines?
      1. Legacy
         1. PCI
      2. High capacity
         1. PCI Express
      3. Bandwidth
      4. Quantity
      5. Characteristics
         1. Smith chart
         2. Electrical
            1. Impedance
            2. Capacitance
            3. Resistance
         3. Waves
            1. Standing wave
            2. Wave ratios
      6. Types
         1. Coax
         2. Microstrip
         3. Balanced
         4. Waveguide
         5. Optical
   6. interfaces?
      1. Ethernet
         1. Copper
         2. Fiber
            1. Characteristics
            2. Physical strength
            3. Capacity
            4. Wavelengths
            5. single- vs multi-mode
      2. Serial
      3. Modem
   7. Standards?
      1. Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC)
      2. ISO 13628
   8. Test- and measurement instruments
      1. Subtopic 1
2. Software Design
   1. Operating System
      1. Industry standard
         1. ElinOS
         2. Montevista
      2. Capabilities
         1. Devices
            1. Drivers
         2. Applications
         3. Services
      3. Performance
         1. multi-threading
         2. Subtopic 2
   2. Interfaces
      1. External
         1. Operation & Maintenance
            1. Configuration
            2. Alarms
            3. Severity
            4. Logs
            5. Archive
            6. Self-maintained
            7. Statistics
            8. Correlation
            9. Combo of events triggers alarms
            10. Notifications
            11. Logs
            12. Archive
            13. Self-maintained
            14. Security
            15. Access
            16. Levels
            17. Users
            18. Groups
            19. Authentication
            20. Certificate
            21. Connection
            22. Encryption
            23. Logs
            24. Notification
            25. Alarms
            26. Performance
            27. Counters
            28. Statistics
            29. Analysis
            30. Self-maintenance
            31. Reboot
            32. Empty buffers
            33. Free up memory/ports
            34. Release users
            35. Kill processes
            36. Restart processes
         2. Protocols
            1. Netconf
            2. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
            3. Syslog
            4. HTTP/HTTPS
            5. SOAP
            6. HTML
            7. Command Line Interface (CLI)
            8. Standards?
            9. Cisco
            10. Juniper
            11. Access?
            12. Serial
            13. Ethernet
            14. Telnet
            15. Secure shell (SSH)
      2. Internal (signals)
         1. Heartbeat
            1. Link up
            2. Ping
            3. text query
         2. Controls
            1. Failover
            2. Reboot
            3. Alarms
   3. Applications
      1. RIP
      2. OSPF
      3. BGP
      4. IS-IS
      5. Link Management Protocol
      6. Link Aggregation
      7. Spanning Tree
      8. Virtual LAN
      9. High Availability
      10. Quality of Service
          1. MPLS
          2. Diffserve
3. Application Engineering
   1. Requirements
      1. Roadmap
         1. Evolution
         2. Future proof
      2. Functions
         1. Quality of Service
            1. MPLS
            2. Diffserve
            3. Virtual wavelengths
      3. Features
         1. Diffserve
            1. Classification handling
      4. Standards
         1. Influence standards bodies
         2. Adaptations
         3. IEEE80x...
         4. RFC...
   2. Technology gap
      1. Existing capabilty vs future needs?
         1. Software
            1. Controller
            2. See Software Design for more...
         2. Hardware
            1. Chipset
            2. Board
            3. See Hardware Design for more...
         3. Test & QA
      2. Applications
         1. Quality of Service
            1. MPLS
            2. Diffserve
         2. Diffserve
         3. MPLS
         4. High Availability
         5. Virtual LAN
         6. Spanning Tree
         7. Link Aggregation
         8. Link Management Protocol
         9. IS-IS
         10. BGP
         11. OSPF
         12. RIP
      3. Devices
         1. Controllers
         2. Interfaces
      4. Topology
   3. Prototype
      1. Fundamental functionality
      2. Uncover limits
      3. Minimize risk
      4. Create use cases and other requirements
4. Test & Quality Assurance
   1. Lab
      1. Racks
         1. Kits
         2. Shelves
         3. Rails
      2. Servers
         1. Applications
            1. Test Handling
            2. Automation
            3. Smoketest
            4. Regression test
            5. Performance test
            6. Fault Handling
            7. Requirements Handling
            8. Scheduling- and equipment management
            9. Version Control
         2. Services
            1. VNC
            2. SSH
            3. Scripts
            4. Shells
      3. Workstations
         1. Applications
            1. Terminals
            2. SSH, Telnet
            3. Browsers
      4. Network
         1. Patch panels
            1. Automated
         2. Cabels
         3. Terminal servers
         4. Switches
         5. Gateway to company network
      5. Power
   2. Test plans
      1. Test suites
         1. Test cases
            1. Test steps
         2. Cross area
            1. Performance
            2. Regression
            3. Smoketest
         3. Applications
            1. RIP
            2. OSPF
            3. BGP
            4. IS-IS
            5. Link Management Protocol
            6. Link Aggregation
            7. Spanning Tree
            8. Virtual LAN
            9. High Availability
            10. Quality of Service
            11. MPLS
            12. Diffserve
         4. Operation & Maintenance
            1. Alarms, notifications and logs
            2. Configuration
            3. Software handling
            4. Install
            5. Upgrade
            6. Rollback
         5. Test approaches
      2. Strategies
         1. Levels
            1. Unit
            2. Integration
            3. Functional
            4. System
         2. Manual vs automated
         3. Internal vs external
      3. Resources
         1. Test equipment
         2. Engineers
         3. Contractors
   3. Methods
      1. Design for test
      2. PEM
      3. Mature Development
         1. Requirements
         2. Design Specs
         3. System-, Design- and Test planning, control & execution