Network Engineering Laboratory

4 Hours

Explore local, metropolitan, and wide-area operations; telecommunication common carrier organizations and services; administrative and political considerations; premise distribution systems; name resolution, address assignment, and mail; datagra,s, packets, frames, and cells; addressing and network-level interconnection; internetwork architecture; TCP/IP protocol suite (v. 4 and 6); Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 standards; IEEE 802.11 standards and wireless access points; repeaters, hubs, bridges, routers; local area network emulation; public switched network access through POTS and ISDN; intradomain and interdomain routing; routing protocols, including RIP, OSPF, and BGP; multicast; media testing; and local- and wide-area diagnostic tools. Electrical and Computer Engineering 472L and Electrical Engineering 372L may not both be counted. Three lecture hours and three laboratory hours a week for one semester.