Advanced Data Communications and Network
The course provides exposure to the
wide variety of technical, managerial and organisational issues essential to
the provision of information technology for commercial application of data
communication systems. It will discuss the fundamentals of communication
technology in terms of its definition and concepts and design. Students will
also be taught the fundamentals of the following transmission systems: Voice
and Data Communication Systems, Messaging Systems, Public Switched Telephone
Network (PSTN). Students will learn how to analyse and apply concepts such as
data communications, conventional digital and data networks, local area
networks (connectivity and Internetworking), broadband network infrastructure,
broadband network services, video and multimedia networking, network
convergence, and internetwork regulations.