IoT: Tackling the Security Challenge with guest lecturer Jason Porter, Vice President, Security Solutions, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T). This course examines various ways to ensure IoT security, including creating partnerships and ecosystems, digital signature and authentication, device management and prevention policies to build security in from the ground up.

The Central Office Re-Architected as a Data Center with guest lecturers Guru Parulkar, Executive Director, Open Networking Research Center , Open Networking Lab; and Larry Peterson, Chief Architect, Open Networking Lab. As service providers move to virtualized networks, telco center offices are being re-architected to look like data centers. Learn more about why the transition needs to happen now, how to make the transition and what the new central office will look like.

Virtualization: Network Design & Infrastructure with guest lecturer Nick Feamster, Acting Director, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University . Industry players are taking different approaches to the critical questions around how to build an NFV infrastructure and where to start. This course looks at various approaches, key goals and challenges and provides insight into which strategy is best for specific network operators.

What Is DevOps? with guest lecturer Colin Kincaid, CTO, Service Provider, Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO). Kincaid explains what DevOps is, the benefits and challenges to implementing DevOps, why and how organizations interpret DevOps differently and explores case studies of successful DevOps teams.

SDN 101 with guest lecturer John Isch, Practice Director, Network & Voice, Orange Business Services . Boost your understanding of the core concepts of SDN, networks-as-a-service and network functions enabled by SDN and how telcos can balance the need for increasing network agility with the bottom line.