Introduction to Local and Wide Area Networking
Vocational qualification
In Carshalton
Description
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Type
Vocational qualification
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Location
Carshalton
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Duration
3 Days
Suitable for: The course does not assume any experience with data communications and networking. It does however assume that attendees will be interested in data communications and networking and are willing and able to absorb a lot of new concepts and terminology. As such the course will be useful to a wide range of backgrounds including: technical sales and support staff selling products that will be attached to networks (e.g. medical diagnostic equipment, industrial.
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Course programme
Affectionately known as "John and Jane go Networking", this seminar is a fast paced introduction to Local and Wide Area Networking concepts and terminology.
It is aimed at novices to the field of networking and data communications who require a rapid and intensive introduction to the subject.
Course Contents
The reasons networks were developed
- sharing resources (e.g. access to file servers, print servers)
- collaborative work (group working)
- transfer of documents and files
- access to intranets and internets
- What are protocols
- Standards and standards making organisations (ITU-T, ANSI, ISO, IETF)
- Computer communication strategies
- packet switching
- message switching
- circuit switching
- Understanding the ISO-OSI seven layer model
- Advantages of layered protocols
- TCP/IP in reference to the seven layer model
- analogue vs. digital circuits
- baseband vs. broadband
- cable types - coax (shielded and unshielded) , twisted pair, optical fibre
- radio links ( microwave, Bluetooth, 802.11x , cellular, satellite)
- dial-up modem standards V.9x, V.42, V.2x ...
- dial up ISDN- BRI, PRI
- DSL and Cable Modem
- X.25
- ATM
- Frame Relay
- SONET/SDH
- Ethernet (10/100 BASE T, 1 and 10 Gigabit)
- Token Ring
- FDDI
- Repeaters and hubs
- Bridges and Switches
- Routers
- VLANs
- IP switching
- QoS and IP
- MPLS
- IPv4
- introduction to IPv6
- Application services
- E-mail, FTP, Telnet, VoIP
- DNS, DHCP, LDAP
- HTTP. Web Services
- SNMP, RMON, MIBs
- Protocol analysers
- Public key
- PKI and Certificates
- IPsec
- VPNs
- Firewalls and Proxy servers
Introduction to Local and Wide Area Networking