Textbook: Business Data Communications & IT Infrastructure by Manish Agrawal & Clinton Daniel, 3rd Edition
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Four credits (CMPT) or three credits (MSIS)
This course examines the concepts and mechanisms of wired and wireless data, audio, and video-transport systems. Network architecture, terminology, control, standards (OSI and TCP/IP models), and general topologies will be discussed. Current equipment and physical interconnections will be explored for a range of network services to support activities such as application development, distributed processing, operating information centers, and providing distance learning. Topics covered include an analysis of the problems and limitations imposed by the physical channel, wireless networks, comparative switching techniques, routing, congestion control, and higher-level protocols needed to complete the end-user to end-user connection.
“Most people had stopped scrolling ever since the papyrus scroll gave way to the parchment book, but now, after two millennia, this act of scrolling has suddenly come back because the unending string of words stored by computers is closer to a continuous scroll than to discrete pages. Similarly, people hadn’t been writing on tablets for hundreds of years, but now we see them everywhere.”
Martin Puchner, The Written Word