CPET 38400 - Wide Area Network Design

Credit by examination: none. This course explores wide area network (WAN) planning and design issues. Emphasis on WAN switching methods and technologies, protocols, and services, traffic engineering, and capacity planning design and tradeoffs. Representative case studies will be used. Other topics may include remote access technologies, access networks, backbone networks, enterprise WAN networks, remote monitoring tools and protocol analyzer, trends in WAN design and WAN integration.

Preparation for Course
P: CPET 28100 or CPET/ECET 35500 or CS 27400 (or equivalent) or ITC 33100 with a grade of C- or better.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Gain knowledge on wide area network (WAN) planning and design issues.