0 to 4 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Laboratory Upper Division
This is an advanced course in network architecture. Students learn to design and implement local and wide area networks capable of simultaneous transport of real-time traffic and multiprotocol data over packet-switched and circuit-switched networks. An emphasis is placed on the integration of diverse communications technologies, while considering the effects of engineering decisions on overall performance, from both business and technology perspectives.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the operation of shortest path spanning trees in internetworks.
2Perform IP subnetworking to correctly size and allocate addressing to network devices.
3Perform IP supernetworking to correctly size and allocate addressing to network devices.
4Identify the correct network architecture to deploy a given set of requirements.
5Deploy dynamic routing protocols.
6Design, deploy, test, and maintain enterprise-class internetworks.
7Demonstrate an understanding of medium characteristics, modulation and multiplexing techniques, physical layer framing structures used in data networks.
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