{"id":2754,"date":"2020-08-20T11:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2754"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:09:21","slug":"scot-arena","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/profile\/scot-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Scot Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scot Arena has been teaching with the Computer Science department at Boston University&#8217;s Metropolitan College since 1996. He is currently a master lecturer and coordinator of the Networking curriculum. Prior to joining BU full time, Arena spent 38 years in the R&#038;D field of telecommunications, where he worked at AT&#038;T Bell Labs and Verizon Labs. He holds several patents in the areas of networking and security, and has worked on numerous large-scale network designs ranging from the first fiber optic systems in the early 1980s through the deployment of the Verizon FiOS network. <\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Research Interests<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computer Architecture<\/li>\n<li>Digital Forensics<\/li>\n<li>Optical Networking<\/li>\n<li>Wireless Networking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Courses<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul><div class=\"course-feed\"><\/p>\n<li>MET CS 595 \u2013 Cybersecurity Fundamentals<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>MET CS 625 \u2013 Business Data Communication and Networks<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>MET CS 685 \u2013 Network Design and Management<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>MET CS 693 \u2013 Digital Forensics and Investigations<\/li>\n<p><\/div><\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"author":13440,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99364,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2754\/revisions\/99364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}