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Overview

Congratulations! This is your discovery of the modern day solution with regards to elevating men to a higher level of understanding on the subject of computer networking.
Of course several approaches have been tried, some more effective than the others.
EQ™ brings to life a completely peculiar technique, utilizing practices current to present day knowledge, and calls it 'project L8'  (pronounced "prürl" by some).

Brief History

Development on pL8 premiered within computer laboratories in Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), 2015, by three IT students.
Initially, a small GCC complied C++ console application was written, then immediately ported to C#.
In the recess of July, 2016, development on the Internet counterpart of the project began, in a joint venture with two lectures from the university.

The development of pL8 was influenced heavily by a lecturer of the computer networking module in NMMU, 2015, who insisted in creating professionals out his students by keeping the module professional in every aspect of learning.
Naturally, students who preferred to be spoon-fed didn't get along with such a lecturer, hence rioting against him.

His professional way of doing things brought life to project L8; his module became so serious that three of his students sort to automate the entire process covered in semester two, and began to work on conversion and subneting algorithms. This sparked the beginning of 'project L8' .

Implementation

Access to pL8 is open to any computer user. Here the yields of pL8 become significant; using Generic mode, a non-IT student can easily be transformed to a fully competent network engineer, effective tools to accomplish such a task are integrated.
A sign up is recommenced to enjoy the full-feature, but not required for some of the basic features. However, with Student and Engineer mode, an account is mandatory

Generic Mode

This is a standard mode with minimal restrictions. Access is granted with or without a user's account. Default configuration and study material is loaded.

Student Mode

This mode is more organized and requires a user account to access. Additionally, users must be registered in an institution, to which some aspects of the account are to be managed. Some of the data served to this type of user is specific to institution assigned, such as the study material.

Engineer Mode

This mode is designed for industry professionals in the field of computer networking, and also requires a user account. It includes tools to create, tweak, and maintain an organization's computer network, while digitalizing the subneting process.

Pending Expansion

Android™ Device Application

EQ™ considers the fact that it would be impractical to assume anyone to always be in possession of a desktop computer.
Instances might occur where one might require quick access to pL8, and the mobile platform is best known for this kind of deliverance.

Study Guide Document creation tool

Student mode requires the user to assign one or more institutions. The "THEORY" page provides a module study guide relevant to user.
Currently, these documents are created at EQ™. A simplified toolkit to enable module lecturers to construct and update study guides on their own is to be integrated.

Safe Exam system

'pL8-integrated' colleges and universities are to enjoy the feature of a safe exam system. This feature allows students to be examined through pL8, with instant marking.
This is to be achieved with an application installed on the workstations to which students to be examined. Heightening security and performance, the application is to run directly on the operating system kernel.
Naturally, this eliminates the latencies and vulnerabilities to security threats posed by third-party application software, and sharing resources with them.
Furthermore, cheating is now impossible, for the application is running in kernel mode, with no other applications, such as web browsers, to help the student get answers online.

Appearance Theme creation tool

If it is one of the things that users appreciate a lot about a product is the ability to customize it to preferred appeal.

This tool allows users to create and save customs. These customs are loaded by default upon sign in.
Furthermore, users can upload customs to the pL8 website upon creation, to which they can be reviewed by other users in the pL8 community.
Upon review, other users can comment, rate, and install custom to their configurations.

Internetworking Operating System Simulation integration

Project L8 is also designed to be a research tool. Integrating the an internetworking operating system simulation will allow instant testing of new tricks by user, without having to have access to an actual Cisco device nearby, or having to open secondary applications, such as Cisco Packet Tracer to accomplish this task.

Furthermore, this will allow users to alternate amongst different internetworking operating systems, from Cisco IOS to many more, seamlessly on a single platform, allowing them to perform quick cross-references and comparisons.

A toolkit to allow users to tweak and customize the selected internetworking operating system will be provided. Even creating a fresh internetworking operating system, or forking existing, will be possible.
All forks and projects will be saved on the respective account for later retrieval and continuations.