Business Information Networks (TM610)

Offers concentrated study of data and computer communications, information network architectures, and standards. Covers information characteristics and requirements for voice, video, image, and data; protocol definitions and performance analyses for distributed networks; network topologies; integrated services digital networks (ISDN); local area networks (LAN) functional characteristics, performance and analysis studies for Ethernet and token ring as primary technologies; internetworking; metropolitan area networks (MAN) including FDDI, DQDB; internetworking; and wide area networking (WAN) technologies including Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Prerequisites: TM601, TM605.