Athena Network Solutions LLC (Athenets) careers

Athena Network Solutions LLC (Athenets) provides a hands-on Virtual Laboratory (VLab) service for E-learning. VLab is a cloud-based service providing a customizable experimental environment (i.e., formed by virtual machines, routers, security appliances, and their customizable interconnections) for both instructors and learners. VLab provides the following salient features compared to existing solutions: (1) Flexible: access has no space and time constrains; (2) Economical: less maintenance efforts.; (3) Reusable: experience can be easily reproduced (4) Expandable: modular design for expansion and extension; (5) Improved education for students: provide the capability for problem-based learning; and (6) Improved education for instructors: cloud and web 2.0 based technologies can greatly reduce the course preparation overhead, and thus provide the ability to easily test and deploy new project ideas in VLab. The VLab has been used by students from Arizona State Universities since 2011.