Description
Discontinued as of Summer Semester 2025.

Fundamental concepts of data communications and networking including data link control and multiplexing; data communications equipment and software; communications protocols; networking with particular emphasis on the OSI international model; alternative to networks as well as issues of network software integration in modern operating systems. A series of lab assignments and experiments to illustrate data communications techniques and fundamentals of design, configuration and implementation of LAN will be given.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C" grade in CPSC 1280; and a minimum "C" grade in CPSC 1160 or 1181; or permission of the department. Prerequisites are valid for only three years.