Virtual Lab in a Distributed International Environment - SVC EDINET

The paper deals with the remote laboratory Virtual Lab solution developed at the Computer Network Laboratory (Technical university of Košice). The aim of the project is to design and implement an e-learning environment, which provides remote access to specified laboratory network devices. This project will be used in the educational process. Using this tool, the students can access and configure network devices like routers and switches remotely from any place via Internet. VirtualLab consists of a hardware and a software part. The hardware part contains a group of server machines, network devices and two special devices called TO108 and PO108. The software part consists of four parts - communication client, central communication server, local communication server, information system). The paper was particularly prepared within the project EDINET (Elearning in Distributed Data Network Laboratory).