ITE402

Course Description

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge required to create a logical network design and suggest alternative physical implementations of this design. Students will be made aware of the key factors and tradeoffs in network performance, security and traffic analysis. The course focuses on the issues and processes used to define and analyze the requirements behind network construction and configuration. The objective is to learn how to design local, campus, metropolitan, or wide area networks and the connection to the Internet. The course addresses concepts like scalability, robustness, redundancy, reliability, remote access, ubiquitous availability, and security. Topics covered in this course include: • identifying customer’s needs and goals • logical network design • physical network design • testing, optimizing, and documenting a network design • addressing and routing architecture • Network management architecture.

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