Development of Equipment for Experimental Studying of Networking Technologies for Junior and Senior High Schools

Studying networking technologies has become one of the most important subjects in the field of Technology of junior high schools and Information Study of senior high schools in Japan. To study these subjects, studying with practically and experimentally is strongly recommended by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologies in Japan). However, there is little equipment for these studies. We have been developing equipment for experimental studying of networking technologies. Connecting each peace of equipment, students can study networking configurations, such as IP address assigning, Net mask, Routing and so on. In this paper, we will describe outline of our research and the equipment.