| Semester 2, 2022 Toowoomba On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences |
| School or Department : | School of Mathematics, Physics & Computing |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: CSC3407 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDTI or GCSC or GCEN or METC or MCOT or MCTE or MCOP or MPIT
Overview
Switches and routers are the basic hardware components of local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs). Furthermore, LANs are inter-connected by WANs which use different technologies from the LANs. An understanding of the basic concepts and operations for switches, routers and WAN technologies is a pre-requisite for all network professionals. This course focuses on basic concepts of switches and virtual LANs; wireless LANs; wireless routers; and various WAN technologies including Frame Relay and enterprise network security. This course covers the second part of the contents for Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (Teach by Technology strand): Switched Networks and Connecting Networks modules offered by the Cisco Networking Academy Program.
This course introduces virtual LANs as a tool to provide segmentation, flexibility and security of LANs. Link redundancy and aggregation are introduced to enhance the robustness of LANs. Network Address Translation is discussed as a method to conserve Internet Protocol Version 4 (ipv4) network address space. It also focuses on WAN technologies which span large geographic areas. After completion of this course, the students will be able to describe and select appropriate WAN technologies; handle switches; routers and wireless routers with confidence.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Design, implement and maintain LANs using switches;
- Apply Virtual LANS and layer 3 switching to corporate networks;
- Analyse and apply different dynamic routing protocols to networks;
- Explain the differences of technologies between a WAN and a LAN;
- Compare and apply security measures to a network;
- Explain cloud computing and virtualization for evolving networks.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Design and technologies of LANs (Objective 1) | 10.00 |
| 2. | Layer 3 switching and Virtual LANs (VLANs) (Objective 2) | 15.00 |
| 3. | Wireless LAN technologies (Objective 1) | 15.00 |
| 4. | Dynamic routing protocols (Objective 3) | 20.00 |
| 5. | Technologies of WANs (Objective 4) | 10.00 |
| 6. | Network security (Objective 5) | 20.00 |
| 7. | Cloud computing and network automation (Objective 6) | 10.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
(ISBN-10: 0-13-663432-X ISBN-13: 978-0-13-663432-4 eBook also available.)
(ISBN-10: 0-13-672935-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-672935-8 eBook also available.)
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Problem Solving 1 | No | 25 | 1,2,3,4 |
| Problem Solving 2 | No | 25 | 3,4,5,6 |
| Time limited online examinatn | No | 50 | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |