AMBO UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

INTERNSHIP REPORT
ON
INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE DONE
AT
ADDIS ABABA ROAD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AGENCY

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 Chapter 1: Introduction

 Internship program is known by giving students the opportunity to apply their

knowledge in real world environments. At the same time, I will also develop
skills which will help us to perform better at the real world jobs, so based on its
aim we have conducted our intern program. Therefore this report describes our
experiences as a 3rd year Ambo University Intern students at the host company
called Addis Ababa Road Traffic Management Agency, which is located in Addis
Ababa. The internship is part of the curriculum requirement for 2 months, July
and august 2011 EC. It generally describes the whole tasks we did in the intern
program, the experience and practice work benefits we got, the challenges
faced and measures taken to solve it.

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Chapter 2: Background of Organization

 The Agency was established under the proclamation No

43/2007 Art 43 of the city administrative council in 2007 EC by
the aim to lead the road traffic management system of the city
with secure & modern technologies , to develop and administer
traffic infrastructures and to aware the society about road traffic
law in order to exercise it practically.

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2.1 Mission of the Organization

 AARTMA is dedicated to aware the society about road usage for

reducing traffic accidents ,to build infrastructure and control center
for the city traffic management and practice road traffic usage rule
of conduct .

2.2 Vision of the Organization

 AARTMA has a vision to modernize road traffic

management service of addis ababa and achieve secure
and standard traffic movement by the year 2017 EC.

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2.3 Core Values of Organization

 Provision of standard services

 Rational Leadership
 Transparency
 Responsibility
 Transformational readiness

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2.4 Activities of the Organization

 In general the organization is responsible for

governing traffic management of the city.

 The Traffic control center directorate is responsible for

administrating the network in the organization.

 Develop HR systems for the organization.

 Develop Traffic Penality system integrated with CBE .

 Develop website for the organization.

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 Chapter 3: Activities during Internship
Week no Main task done during the week Done/undone
Week 1.  we visited the Data center of the Organization with our Done
supervisor and all the equipment’s.

Week 2  we choose from the two area found in the directorate i.e.
networking and system development.
 They gave all material needed for network installation with
supervisor and place where we install networks.

Done

Week 3,4,5 we took three class and install network for it

 Trunk installation
 Cable crimping/installation
 Data outlet installation Done

Week 6 We took some Cisco courses like get connected.

Undone

Week 7  Network configuration

 Switch configuration
 Router configuration
 Wi-Fi-configuration 75%done,25%undone

Week 8 We finish our work in AARTMA.

Done

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 3.1 Theoretical Activities Involved
 Tester: A cable tester is a device that is used to test the strength and
connectivity of a particular type of cable or other wired assemblies.

 RJ-45: is an 8-pin connection used for Ethernet network adapters. This

connector resembles the RJ-11 or 6-pin connector..

 Crimping Tool: is a device used to conjoin two pieces of metal by

deforming one or both of them in a way that causes them to hold each
other.

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 Trucking: Is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and
with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables from
damage and dust and water ingress.

 Cat-6 cable: Category 6 cable is a standardized twisted pair cable

for Ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward
compatible with the Category 5/5e.

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 Switch: is networking hardware that connects devices on
a computer network by using packet switching to receive,
and forward data to the destination device.

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 Puncher: also called a punch down tool, a small hand tool used for
inserting wire into insulation-displacement connectors on punch
down blocks, patch panels and surface mount boxes.

 Patch panel: In an enterprise network, a patch panel serves as a sort of

static switchboard, using cables to interconnect network computers within a
LAN and to outside lines including the internet or other wide area networks
(WANs).

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 Rack: also network rack is a metal frame chassis that holds, stacks,
organizes, secures and protects various computer network and server
hardware devices.

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Cable Arrangement, punching and crimping

T568A and T568B Wiring Standard

Straight through Cable:

 On a straight through cable, the wired pins match. Straight through cable use
one wiring standard: both ends use T568A wiring standard or both ends use
T568B wiring standard.

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Cross over cable:

 Unlike straight through cable, crossover cables use two different wiring
standards: one end uses the T568A wiring standard, and the other end uses
the T568B wiring standard.
 Usually, straight through cables are primarily used for connecting unlike
devices. And crossover cables are use for connecting unlike devices alike
devices.

Straight through cabling Crossover cabling

 Switch to router  Switch to switch
 Switch to PC or server  Switch to hub
 Hub to PC or server  Hub to hub
 Router to router
 Router Ethernet port to PC NIC

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 3.2 Physical Activities Involved
Steps to punch UTP cable
1. Make sure the stripper is adjusted properly on a scrap piece of cable.
2. The Stripper should be adjusted to only cut the jacket to make removing it easier and
not nick the twisted pairs.
3. Straighten the pairs out completely and lay them over the top of the jack with the order
of the color pattern for wiring.
4. Keeping the pairs as twisted as possible press the wire into the correct groove with your
thumbs.
5. If you completely straighten the wires to run them through the jack you will risk cross
talk between the pairs.
6. Using a punch down tool, punch the wires down into the blades built into the jack.
7. The blades in the jack are designed to work with solid cable, and may not work with
stranded cable.
8. Make sure the blade is facing the outside of the jack.

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Steps to crimp UTP cable

1. Strip the cable back 1 inch (25 mm) from the end.
2. Untwist and straighten the wires inside of the cable.
3. Arrange the wires into the right order.
4. Cut the wires into an even line 1⁄2 inch (13 mm) from sheathing.
5. Insert the wires into the RJ-45 connector.
6. Stick the connector into the crimping part of the tool and squeeze
twice.
7. Remove the cable from the tool and check that all of the pins are
down.

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Chapter 4: Challenge faced during the Internship

 There are many challenges during our stay, such as Financial

problem, Shortage of staffs to guide us, Power fluctuation,
shortage of network cables, no adequate internet connection.
and Shortage of time to cover all things. The most mandatory
challenges that is occurred during internships is Financial
problem of the organization to fulfill all material for practice.

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 Chapter 5:Knowledge Acquired during Internship

Technical knowledge we acquire includes :

 How a cable are putted inside trucker to connected a

node.
 How we design logical implementation of network
infrastructure .
 How a cable are punched on node for connection.
 How cable are punched on patch panel.
 How we arranged straight through cable and cross-over
cable.
 How we crimp a cable to RJ-45 using Crimper.

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Chapter 6:Conclusion and Recommendation
6.1. Conclusion
 At The practical attachment what we have done for 45 days is field of
work. This practical attachment gives us the experience, an attractive
work and intelligence activities for professional skill and knowledge on
our job application for the work activities performed professionally.
This attachment helps to find the job opportunity practiced in different
organization to change better information accessibility in the public
services. In general this practical attachment develops the ability,
knowledge , experience and skill to recognize the real world
environment Networking .

 In general, we developed good confidence that will make us familiar

to the work place after graduation. And also Upgrade our theoretical
knowledge and visualizations. Upgrading our ability to be creative,
confident and take risks in our future professional career.

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 6.2.1 Recommendation for the Organization

we would like to recommend that the organization should facilitate

the following pre-conduction for the student.

 The traffic control center office should increase their

employee number.
 The co-ordination between high levels to low level staffs
should be good.
 The employee should be punctual.
 The material should be sufficient.
 The day of the practical attachment have to be maximized.
 The budget for the practical attachment is not enough.
 The flow of information should be smooth.

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 6.2.2 Recommendation about Practical Attachment

 We would like to Recommend practical attachment is good way to

acquire basic knowledge, however durations of the practice is one very
short in the internships. Because some course require practices that we
had learnt from 1st to 3rd year to cover the theory into practical. Such as
application, maintenance, operating system. So the department should
increase duration of internship period to cover all things, and also assign
advisors for the student for motivations.

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