MARCH 16, 2010
kolej uninersiti islam antarabangsa selangor
This study focuses on softphone evaluation performance for VoIP conversation via wired and wireless technology in campus environment. We have setup a real VoIP network environment in University of Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), Malaysia. Two softphones such as 3CX phone and Mizuphone will undergo evaluation process to define which softphone able to provide better VoIP quality. Implementation of VoIP in campus environment is not considered any QoS features. In our experiments, we use mean opinion score (MOS) to evaluate and measure the performance of VoIP in campus environment. MOS is a human perception based on qualitative technique. We select several students in UniKL to test VoIP performance. We have conducted several experiments such as: i) test the VoIP over medium transmission; and ii) select different codecs: GSM, G.726, iLBC and Speex. The result shows that 3CX phone able to provide a good quality of VoIP over wired and wireless transmission. In addition, using different codecs, it shows a good respondent result on quality of VoIP using 3CX phone. Therefore, we will use 3CX softphone as our medium communication via VoIP technology.
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Malaysian Engineering University Ensures Safe and Speedy Internet Access while Reducing Operational and Manpower Costs
SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 16, 2010 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), one of Malaysia’s top engineering universities, has deployed Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances with Blue Coat WebFilter to secure and optimize the Web experience for 8,500 users. With the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, UniMAP can define flexible Web access policies while mitigating the impact of bandwidth-intensive, rich-media applications such as video, resulting in lower management costs, improved application performance and greater Web security.
“We need to protect our users from Web threats and other malicious content while providing optimal application performance and readily available Internet access across our distributed campus,” said Hj Nasrudin Abd Shukor, director of the Information Communication and Technology Center at UniMAP. “The Blue Coat products meet the high expectations of our community of academics, students and administrators and allow me to utilize my staff more efficiently, giving me peace of mind.”
UniMAP deployed the solution across its campuses in three days and can now easily define and alter policies based on users, content, groups and times of day with the ProxySG appliances. With the ability to categorize every URL into up to four categories, WebFilter gives UniMAP the granular visibility into Web content that allows it to create flexible access policies without overblocking content.
Additionally, WebFilter is supported by the cloud-based Blue Coat WebPulse™ service, which rates new content in real-time and immediately applies definedpolicies, freeing IT security officers to focus on more strategic objectives. The WebPulse service provides on-demand security intelligence based on real-time URL requests from 70 million users worldwide to quickly identify new Web content, including malware and other malicious content. The discovery of malware by one user immediately protects all users, providing UniMAP with greater security than it would have on its own.
In addition to providing flexible control of Web content and a first line of defense against malware, the ProxySG appliances are uniquely adept at managing video traffic. Advanced functionality, including stream splitting and video caching, minimize the impact of video on the network by reducing the number of video streams that need to be downloaded. By optimizing video traffic, Blue Coat appliances free up bandwidth for other applications and improve the Web experience for all UniMAP users.
“The deployment of the ProxySG appliances has enabled Universiti Malaysia Perlis to get more value out of its network for the benefit of the entire organization,” said Nick Nindra, managing director for ASEAN, Blue Coat Systems. “In keeping malware at bay and recreational applications under control, the University has improved Web performance and security, so university staff and students can take advantage of the latest applications and technologies, including video.”
UniMAP, situated at the northernmost part of the Malaysian peninsula, specialises in electronic-based engineering and has grown from 116 engineering students in 2002, to more than 8,000 today. The university consists of eight engineering schools that offer 27 separate undergraduate programmes, as well as many postgraduate degree options.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and boost the end-user Web experience. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.
Monday, 18 Apr 2011, 6:16pm
Kuantan, Pahang – Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) has just announced that it has deployed Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) as part of its growth in technology infrastructure.
From L-R: Roslan Bin Awang Abd Rahman, Deputy Director, PTMK UMP; Saiful Lizam Mohd Khamis, Director of Technology Sales Public Sector and MRD, Oracle Corporation Malaysia; Prof Dato’ Dr Daing Mohd Nasir Daing Ibrahim, Vice Chancellor UMP; and Prof Dr Badhrulhisham Bin Abdul Aziz, Assistant Vice Chancellor (Academic & International), UMP
The implementation of these Oracle solutions helps to provide UMP with fault tolerance to maximize the availability of the Main Academic Portal, Time Attendance system, Student Management system, Online Examination system and Financial and Human Resource (HR) Management system, which in turn will result in a better service level for students and staff alike.
Thanks to this new system, efficiency of the university's workforce is also improved as it offers automated management capabilities that frees up staff time that were previously spent on manual administrative work.
“To improve its service level, UMP undertook the project to ensure prompt and reliable delivery of critical campus services, while stabilizing and easing workload and as a result, we are able to increase efficiencies that bring benefit to our students and staff so they can focus more on their core competencies,” said Professor Dato’ Dr. Daing Mohd Nasir Daing Ibrahim, Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Pahang.
KUALA LUMPUR, 7 MARCH 2011 - Malaysian technical university Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) and networking solutions firm Cisco have rolled out a 20-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) network to create a connected learning environment.
UTeM Computer Centre directors Mohd Isa Mohd Dom said the network in its Durian Tunggal campus, which houses 8,000 students, would simplify operations as well as provide connectivity on any device. "UTeM is the first university in Malaysia to roll out such a robust campus-wide network, which aims to be a model for other universities in the country in the planning and implementation of information and communications technology (ICT)."
"We believe the network is crucial in enabling a future-proof technology environment that contributes to academic excellence, innovation and creative technical education," said Isa. "With a network powered by Cisco equipment, we are ready to welcome into the campus latest technologies such as unified communications, video conferencing facilities and lecture-on-demand applications."
"A connected learning environment has been recognised throughout the world as the key in enabling a better-quality and knowledge-led educational process," said Cisco Malaysia managing director, Anne Abraham. "Today, the network is the platform for transforming universities and educational institutions, not only by empowering collaboration but also by increasing greater access to quality education."
"This move is consistent with the Malaysian government's education policy, as announced by the Ministry of Education, which called on educational institutions to embrace ICT as the main tool for teaching and to ensure that the education ICT practices in Malaysian schools meet international standards," said UTeM's Isa. "With this implementation, UTeM will transform its existing ICT environment to allow the integration of many other useful innovation-driven applications."
Monday, 8 August 2011
MONDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2011 18:30
By Kuah Guan Oo
Pix by Saliman Leman
Prof Dr Aziz Deraman, who is the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), said softwares, like humans, are always exposed to diseases like heart attack which can be prevented if it is detected early.
He cited the case of the “SCUD vs Patriot” missiles during the Gulf War where 20 American soldiers were killed and 100 others injured when their Patriot guided missile missed hitting the Iraqi’s SCUD missile as an example where software with problems had brought about disasters.
An arithmetic rectification found that the time calculated for the Patriot to hit the SCUD was 0.34 seconds late and that even though corrections had been made earlier, it was not done to all its programming codes, said Prof Dr Aziz when delivering his inaugural professorial lecture titled “In Search for Quality Software”.
In the case of the rocket launcher Ariane 5 disaster in June 1996, the rocket exploded 40 seconds after take-off because the software specifications for Ariane 4 were used for Ariane 5 when the specifications of the two rockets were different.
“Pre-launch tests on the software were not conducted until the actual launch,” said Prof Dr Aziz who had served in UKM in various capacities for 28 years, including as Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Technology before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of UMT last year.
He said with the ever-growing dependence on software, the challenges for research in search of quality software were to safeguard the harmony between the software and users; to detect software “illnesses” before disasters strike and to face the situation of attempting to measure the unmeasurable.
But the biggest challenge in the search for quality software was to try to measure the software because “we cannot control what we cannot measure”.
For this reason, several approaches had been developed to try to measure the quality of software such as quantitative values to explain a certain phenomenon; matrix size of the software which is getting less and less relevant and user evaluation that is directed at only external factors and matrix as a measurement of “quality software”.
Prof Aziz, who had held the post of Deputy Director of the UKM Computer Centre, said the approach they had used to evaluate the software quality of the university’s Centre for Information Technology was based on “Goal/Question/Matrix” or GQM which is a technique to identify the important matrix in the lifespan of the software. .
This approach could lead to the certification of the software by a third party similar to ISO certification, said Prof Dr Aziz who was born at di Kampong Tok ku, Cabang Tiga Kuala Terengganu in 1959.
He had his primary education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Pusat Cabang Tiga Kuala Terengganu and secondary education at Sekolah Menengah Sains Pahang before doing his matriculation at Sekolah Alam Shah.
He was offered a place to do medicine at UKM but he switched to Computer Science where he graduated with his first degree in 1982. He obtained his Masters from Glasgow University in 1984 and his PhD from UMIST Manchester in 1992.
Apart from his lectures and research works and publications, Prof Aziz is also active with organisations outside the campus where he had served as advisor, panel member and consultant in ICT. He has to date supervised 37 Master students and 20 PhD candidates.
By Kuah Guan Oo
Pix by Saliman Leman
BANGI, 21 Feb. 2011 – Software with problems can cause disaster if they are not detected, tested and rectified in a framework of quality certification, says an ICT expert here today.
Prof Dr Aziz Deraman, who is the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), said softwares, like humans, are always exposed to diseases like heart attack which can be prevented if it is detected early.
He cited the case of the “SCUD vs Patriot” missiles during the Gulf War where 20 American soldiers were killed and 100 others injured when their Patriot guided missile missed hitting the Iraqi’s SCUD missile as an example where software with problems had brought about disasters.
An arithmetic rectification found that the time calculated for the Patriot to hit the SCUD was 0.34 seconds late and that even though corrections had been made earlier, it was not done to all its programming codes, said Prof Dr Aziz when delivering his inaugural professorial lecture titled “In Search for Quality Software”.
In the case of the rocket launcher Ariane 5 disaster in June 1996, the rocket exploded 40 seconds after take-off because the software specifications for Ariane 4 were used for Ariane 5 when the specifications of the two rockets were different.
“Pre-launch tests on the software were not conducted until the actual launch,” said Prof Dr Aziz who had served in UKM in various capacities for 28 years, including as Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Technology before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of UMT last year.
He said with the ever-growing dependence on software, the challenges for research in search of quality software were to safeguard the harmony between the software and users; to detect software “illnesses” before disasters strike and to face the situation of attempting to measure the unmeasurable.
But the biggest challenge in the search for quality software was to try to measure the software because “we cannot control what we cannot measure”.
For this reason, several approaches had been developed to try to measure the quality of software such as quantitative values to explain a certain phenomenon; matrix size of the software which is getting less and less relevant and user evaluation that is directed at only external factors and matrix as a measurement of “quality software”.
Prof Aziz, who had held the post of Deputy Director of the UKM Computer Centre, said the approach they had used to evaluate the software quality of the university’s Centre for Information Technology was based on “Goal/Question/Matrix” or GQM which is a technique to identify the important matrix in the lifespan of the software. .
This approach could lead to the certification of the software by a third party similar to ISO certification, said Prof Dr Aziz who was born at di Kampong Tok ku, Cabang Tiga Kuala Terengganu in 1959.
He had his primary education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Pusat Cabang Tiga Kuala Terengganu and secondary education at Sekolah Menengah Sains Pahang before doing his matriculation at Sekolah Alam Shah.
He was offered a place to do medicine at UKM but he switched to Computer Science where he graduated with his first degree in 1982. He obtained his Masters from Glasgow University in 1984 and his PhD from UMIST Manchester in 1992.
Apart from his lectures and research works and publications, Prof Aziz is also active with organisations outside the campus where he had served as advisor, panel member and consultant in ICT. He has to date supervised 37 Master students and 20 PhD candidates.
July 20, 2011, Wednesday
KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) has sealed a partnership with Asia e-University (AeU) to further expand its online distance learning (ODL) programmes.
The university inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the new partner yesterday, aiming to increase the intake of its international students by better promoting its Postgraduate Master Programmes through AeU.
Under the agreement, two ODL programmes, namely the Master of Human Capital Management (School of Business and Economics) and Master in Education Management (School of Education and Social Development), will be offered starting January next year.
UMS vice-chancellor Brigadier General Professor Datuk Seri Kamaruzaman Ampon said the MoU paved the way for further collaboration with AeU, especially in promoting ODL programmes to foreign countries.
He added UMS was looking towards offering more programmes from its other schools through AeU in the near future.
“The significance of this MoU would be to encourage the expansion of our online distance learning programme globally in the industry of higher education, with AeU as a gateway university to develop and expand ODL programmes, thus generating impact towards our national economy,” he said.
Kamaruzaman said besides increasing the intake of international students in UMS, the move was also consistent with the national agenda to promote Malaysia as the regional international hub.
“This would be reachable with the MoU with AeU today, where AeU will assist us in promoting the ODL programmes through online portal as well as providing the technical training and expertise in handling the online lectures and learning activities to our academic staff who are involved directly in the ODL programmes,” he added.
AeU is a flexible, international university set up in Asia under the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD). Its establishment is an initiative of Malaysia as the prime mover for e-education, with the support of 31 ACD member countries.
Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, AeU collaborates with higher learning institutions and training centres in the 31 ACD member countries to offer academic and professional training programmes focusing on affordability, accessibility, and quality.
The institution has been commissioned by the government to collaborate with higher learning institutions in Malaysia to promote Online Distance Learning (ODL) and under this initiative, every higher learning institution is required to identify and develop two ODL programmes by end of 2011.
The signing was witnessed by State Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, where Kamaruzaman represented UMS and AeU was represented by its president, Professor Datuk Ansary Ahmed.
Ansary said Malaysia is currently ranked the 10th most popular destination for foreign students in the world, and promoting ODL programmes is another effort to climb up the rank besides increasing the number of foreign students coming and studying in the country.
He said among the regions the country has targeted to reach out to are Asean, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, the Indian sub-continent and Africa.
“Malaysia has a target of reaching 110,000 online students by 2020; we have a big task, this will not be successful if we as institutions and academicians cannot work together,” Ansary added.
UMS is the seventh public higher learning institution (IPTA) which AeU has ventured with in providing Malaysian education online.
Commenting on the signing of the MoU, Dr Yee said it was in line with the country’s effort to better equip itself to meet the challenge in creating proper human resource development through education.
May 11, 2011, Wednesday
KUCHING: The International Conference on IT in Asia (CITA) is an international forum run by the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas).
The conference aims to bring together professionals and executives to share and exchange ideas and information pertaining to the roles of ICTs within the prevailing challenges of development faced by the region.
This international forum also aims to investigate how the technology can be adapted to improve local needs as well as to bring technology within reach of the communities.
The theme for the 7th CITA will be ‘Emerging Convergences and Singularity of Forms’.
For this year’s event, CITA ’11 Keynote speakers include Prof Bebo White of Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), from renowned Stanford University, USA; Prof Dr Leon Sterling, from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; and Prof Dr Yoshiyori Urano from Waseda University,
Japan.
Japan.
They will be presenting their keynote addresses on ‘Preparing for the Web of Things’, ‘Agent-Oriented Modelling for Converging Devices and Systems’, and ‘Building Lifelong Learning Schemes for Seniors’ respectively.
Additionally, CITA’11 is co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and is collocated with the International Workshop on Internalisation of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2011).
CITA’11 participants will also be able to listen to IWIPS 2011 keynote speaker, Dr Patrick Larvie of Google USA, who will be talking on ‘What trade history reveals about the Internet, and how ketchup can teach us to do our jobs better’.
Various workshops covering state of the art topics will be conducted on July 11 at the faculty’s impressive labs by experts.
Topics covered ‘Workshop on Mathematical Modelling’ by Assoc Prof Dr Jane Labadin from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak; ‘The Art of Agent Oriented Modelling for Agent Oriented Software Development’ by Prof Leon Sterling from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; ‘Experiential and Exploratory Stimulation via A Virtual Environment’ by Dr Sylvester Arnab from Serious Games Institute, UK; ‘How to Deploy Technologies (ICT, Solar Power) to Remote and Rural Communities’ from Center of Excellence for Rural Informatics; ‘Multilingual Knowledge Management Workshop’ by Prof Dr Ahmad Zaki bin Abu Bakar from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and ‘Joining the World of Linked Open Data’ by Prof Bebo White.
For more information, the public are advised to refer to the conference website http://www.cita11.org or email queries directly to the conference secretary at secretary@cita11.org
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