National Apprentice & Industrial Training

Authority
Report on Industrial Training
At

Sri Lanka Telecom PLC

Colombo 01

Advanced Technological Institute

Kurunegala

Name : D.M.P.Gayathri

Student Number : KUR/IT/F/E/2016/047

Course : Higher National Diploma

Field : Information Technology

Training Period : 6 Months (From 02/05/2018 to 01/11/2018)

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is a great pleasure for me to acknowledge the assistance and contributions of all the people
who helped me to make my industrial training a success. My training would not have been so
successful, without the dedicated assistance given by those individuals.

I would like to give my special thanks to Mrs. Wathsala Samarasekara, (Head of Department,
Information Technology), Lecturer Mrs. Nayomi Gamlath, Lecturer Mrs. Deepani Ekanayake
Lecturer Mrs.K.G.D.De.A.Wijesinghe, Lecturer Mr.K.W.G.S.Konthasinghe and
demonstrators Mr.S.C.S Samara wickrama, Mrs.Sumudu Chathurika for their guidance and
instructions throughout our following course – HNDIT (Higher National Diploma in
Information Technology).

I wish to extend my sincere thanks to Miss. Shiromi Lakmali, Engineer – Business Solution,
for coordinating my training activities and sharing her knowledge.
Finally, I wish to convey my gratitude to staff members of the Sri Lanka Telecom PLC those
who supported me in gaining knowledge in the field, for their enduring support and patience.

To become a professional in Information Technology industry, industrial training is the

foundation for each HNDIT student. It helps students to improve their practical skills related
to interpersonal, problems solving, research and reporting as well as soft skills. Also it helps
the students get exposure to the industry, apply the gained knowledge throughout the academic
program and learn new updated technologies. In addition, it helps students' career development
and to prepare for employment after diploma, by engaging in personal and professional
development planning. I hereby use this opportunity to thank everybody who helped me
directly and indirectly of successful completion of my industrial training at the Sri Lanka
Telecom PLC.

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 PREFACE
As a student of HNDIT it was great opportunity for me to experience and to learn professional
skills of Networking at Miracle Network & Solutions.

The primary objective of industrial training program is to overcome such problems faced by
an apprentice, and to build up a sound appreciation and understanding of the theoretical
principles learnt as an apprentice, by exposing them to the industrial environment while being
a learner. It is oriented towards developing the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to make
an effective start as a member of the Network profession.

This report presents a brief presentation on gained; technical expertise, experiences, customer
interaction, challenges, achievements and failures during my Industrial training. I was placed
at the Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, for duration of 24 weeks commencing from 02nd May 2018. I
am highly satisfied with the training experience.

It was a difficult task deciding on what topics to be present in this report and what to be
eliminated. I was exposed to whole lot of new technologies and devices that I did not cover
during my last few semesters. This report presents detailed explanation only on products and
underline technologies that was novel to me. Therefore I feel that I must start those topics in a
bit lower level, like explaining all the required keywords before they are used in the rest of this
chapter. Again it was difficult to priorities sub chapters on what extent to write because there
was whole lot of concepts.

This report is organized in to several chapters which begin with an Introduction to the training
organization. Chapter 2 is a brief summary of my training exposure and several topics briefly
present some of the theoretical concepts, equipment’s, there capacities and configurations of
the products that I worked with.

Finally there is a conclusion, which discuss about the training exposure, organizations ability
to provide good training, current training program, improvements and few other issues.

Abbreviations explain most of the acronyms being used through the entire report. References
include lists of references that helped me during my training and writing this report. Few new
references are added for additional reading.

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 CONTENT

Acknowledgement

Preface

Chapter 01

1.0 Introduction 1
1.1 Sri Lanka Telecom PLC 1
1.2 The History and Milestone of SLT 2
1.3 Organizational Structure 3
1.4 Services and Products 5
1.5 Co-Operate Plan 7
1.5.1 Vision 7
1.5.2 Mission 7
1.5.3 Values of SLT 8
1.6 Ownership of the Organization 8
1.7 Management of the Organization 8
1.7.1 Regional Sector 9
1.7.2 Headquarters 9
1.8 Employee Provident Fund (EPF) 10
1.9 Employee Trust Fund (ETF) 10
1.10 Leave 10
1.11 Welfare Activities 10
1.11.1 Medical Facilities 10
1.11.2 Recreation and Sports 11
1.12 Safety 11
1.12.1 Safety Helmet 11
1.12.2 Overall 11
1.12.3 Safety Gloves 12
1.12.4 Safety Belt 12
1.12.5 Safety Shoes 12
1.12.6 Temporary Earthling Devices 13

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 1.12.7 Pole Safety 13
1.12.8 First aid for Electric Shock 13

Chapter 02

2.0 Training Experience 14

2.1 SLT Data Centers 14
2.2 Structured Cabling 17
2.2.1 Types of Copper Cables 17
2.2.2 Coaxial Cable 17
2.2.3 Coaxial Cable Applications 18
2.2.4 Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) 18
2.2.5 Types of UTP Cables 19
2.2.6 Shielded Twisted Pair Cable (STP) 20
2.2.7 Fiber-Optic Cable 20
2.2.7.1 Fiber Constructions 21
2.2.7.2 Types of Fyber 21
2.3 VMware Installation 22
2.3.1 Create a VMware HA Cluster 22
2.3.2 Configuring a VMware ESXi Cluster 23
2.3.3 Creating a VMware ESXi Cluster 24
2.3.4 How to Create a New Cluster 25

Chapter 03

Conclusion 32

References 33

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 List of Figures

Figure 1.1 – SLT Logo 1

Figure 1.2 - SLT top level management organization structure 3

Figure 1.3 – SLT bottom level management organization structure 4

Figure 1.4 - Safety helmet 11

Figure 1.5 - Safety overall 11

Figure 1.6 - Safety gloves 12

Figure 1.7 - Safety belt 12

Figure 2.1 - Data Centre 14

Figure 2.2 – Racks of telecommunications equipment in part of a data center 15

Figure 2.3 – CRAC Air Handler 15

Figure 2.4 – An example of “rack mounted” servers 15

Figure 2.5 – Under Floor Cable Runs 15

Figure 2.6 – A typical Server 16

Figure 2.7 – Cabinet aisle in a data center 16

Figure 2.8 Coaxial Cable 17

Figure 2.9 – UTP 18

Figure 2.10 - UTP Cables 19

Figure 2.11 - STP Cable 20

Figure 2.13 – VMware Site Recovery Manager 22

Figure 2.14 – VMware Web Client 23

Figure 2.15 – vSphere Web Client 24

Figure 2.16 – Step 1 Assign a name 25

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Figure 2.17 – Step 2 Create new cluster 25

Figure 2.18 – Step 3 Assign a name 26

Figure 2.19 – Step 4 Add a host 26

Figure 2.20 – Add Name and a Location to the host 27

Figure 2.21 – Provide credential 27

Figure 2.22 – Security Alert 28

Figure 2.23 – Host Summery 28

Figure 2.24 – Assign License 29

Figure 2.25 – Lockdown Mode 30

Figure 2.26 – Finish adding host 30

Figure 2.27 – Added Cluster 31

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