This course will provide students with an understanding of how telecommunications networks are designed and deployed to support e-commerce, multimedia and web-centric business applications. Network planning concepts, network analysis, network design tools and techniques are introduced. The objective of this course is to understand the design and analysis of data communications networks through the introduction of case studies and practical network design methodologies. Also an understanding of the application, deployment and benefits of industry standard architectures including: TCP/IP, VoIP, SONET, Gigabit Ethernet, 3G and other emerging standards will be provided. Lect: 3 hrs. Prerequisite: ITM 301 or Direct Entry, Antirequisite: AIM 303 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
