INDUSTRIAL VISIT

An Industrial Visit to Aptron Solutions Pvt. Ltd. was organised by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon on 5th November 2015. Thirty Four students from CSE, CSIT and ECE Departments, along with Mr. Amar Saraswat, Assistant Professor, CSE Department visited Aptron Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Vikas, Network Consultant at Aptron Solutions, provided an in-depth knowledge about Cisco Packet Tracer, creating virtual networks and tracing packets. He also discussed the importance of networking certifications and its importance in the day to day life i.e the CCNA (Cisco certified Network Associate), CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) and CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) which can prove beneficial for the students who want to pursue their career in the field of networking.

The students then visited the APTRON Labs and server rooms where they saw the real time implementation and maintenance of racks and routers. During the lab visit, Mr. Vikas also explained the students about various networking devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, hubs, etc. He also explained about the ways to connect these devices and maintain them with the help of various networking commands.

The students also learnt to identify the ability of network infrastructure that supports its applications and how it affecting the overall experience for users. Mr. Vikas also discussed that how the world is making legacy and network technologies work together. With the help of an example, Mr. Vikas also explained connected several computers in a LAN with the help of a switch, install IP addresses to the computers and managed them with only one machine and IOS.

The visit concluded with an interactive questions and answers session in which students raised questions and their doubts on the topic which were cleared by the experts. Certificate of participation was distributed among the students. The industrial visit to Aptron Solutions Pvt. Ltd. proved to be very enriching for the students.