Module1

Introductionto Data Communications: What is Data Communications?.

Essential Features of Communication, Essential Features of networks? Data

Communications Fundamentals, Data communication Frame works, Data

Communications History, Business Data Communications Issues', Introduction

to Distributed Data Processing, data Transmission media.

Module 2

TCPIIP and the internet- TCP/IP and OSI - The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture,

TCP and IP Details, The OSI Protocol Architecture, What is the Internet?

Important Internet Technologies, Key world, Wide Web Technologies, Internet

Services. the Internet addressing and operations - Internet host/node

addressees I P Routing, TCP IP and security, Internet working technologies.

Module 3

Approaches to networking - LAN, MAN and WANs, Switching techniques,

circuit switching networks ISDN, packet switching networks, X.25,

Introduction to Local Area Networks - LAN configuration, Topologies and

transmission media, LAN standards, bridges, switches, LAN systems- Ethernet,

token ting, fiber channel. LAN Software. Wide area networking Alternatives,

frame relay, Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). Wireless networks.

Module 4

Data communication and networking applications - distributed and applications

-email.Electronic data interchange.enterprise application integration.client

Iserver and intranet computing- client/server applications. Middleware,

intranets, extranets.

Module 5

Network Management - network management requirements, organizing

network management functions, network management systems, performance

monitoring, managing network security -security threat, encryption, web

security.