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Broome Community College

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Here is your assignment for Friday's 2-3 and 3-4 class. Good luck!

Search the Internet for "fully connected network" and locate four companies using fully connected networks. Record the size of the network and the speed of the links between nodes.
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Topics:

These are the topics we will most likely cover during the semester. The order may change from time to time, and additional topics may also be introduced.

Week

Lecture Topic

Text Reading

Laboratory (demo)

1

Introduction, Network Topologies

Chapters 1 and 2

Basic Networking Ground Rules
Networking Tour

2

Networking Hardware

Chapter 3 and 10

Experiments 1 and 2

3

Local Area Network Technologies

Chapter 4

Experiment 3*

4

Local Area Network Technologies

Chapters 4 and 5

Experiment 4

5

Network Design and Troubleshooting

Chapter 6

Experiment 6*

6

Low Level Protocols

Chapter 7, and 17

Experiment 7

7

TCP/IP Protocols

Chapter 8

TEST #1

8

TCP/IP Protocols

Chapter 8

Experiment 8*

9

Routing

Chapter 10

Experiment 10

10

Electronic Mail

Chapter 12

Experiment 12

11

FTP and Telnet

Chapter 13

Experiment 13*

12

Multimedia Networking

Chapter 14

Experiment 14

13

Individual Project Presentations

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Individual Project Presentations

14

The Internet

Chapter 15, 17

TEST #2

15

Summary/Discussion

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Experiment 15

* - indicates that the end of chapter lab Discussion and Conclusion report must be submitted.

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