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TSM 241

Syllabus used in previous years. This is intended to give you an idea about the class. There is no guarantee that this reflects future syllabi.

CREDIT HOURS: 3

 TITLE: Voice and Data Networking Essentials
  1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
    A technical overview of the evolution of the Networking Industry from early voice communications through modern-day high-speed data & voice networks.

  2. PURPOSE:
    The purpose is to build a good foundation for the student to understand the majority of the network technologies in use today.

  3. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
    To provide the Telecommunications student with the concepts necessary to readily understand the underlying principles behind the primary voice & data networks in existence today. Upon leaving this course, the student will be able to work with any specific networking topology and server system.

  4. CONTENT OUTLINE:
    1. Transmission Mediums and the Physical Layer
    2. The Data Link Layer
    3. Local Area Networks
    4. Network Operating Systems
    5. LAN Interconnection
    6. The Public Switched Telephone System
    7. Multiplexing and CODECs
    8. Modulation and MODEMs
    9. T-Carrier
    10. Integrated Services Digital Network
    11. High Speed Data to the Office and Home
    12. Cellular Communications
    13. X.25 and Frame Relay
    14. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and SONET

  5. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
    Lecture & Discussion

  6. FIELD, CLINICAL, AND/OR LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:
    None

  7. RESOURCES:
    Web-Page references

  8. GRADING PROCEDURES:
    1. GRADING FACTORS:
      Factor Final Grade %
      Best 5 of 6 Exam Grades
      100%

    2. GRADING SCALE
      Average   Grade
      90 or above       A
      80 - 89%       B
      70 - 79%       C
      60 - 69%       D
      Below 60%       E

  9. ATTENDANCE POLICY:
    Attendance will not be recorded each day, but students are expected to be regular in attendance. Provisions will be made for making up necessary absences from labs. Late homework or lab reports without valid reason will have a grade reduction. No make-ups are given for pop tests. The lowest one-hour exam grade will be dropped, and normally no make-up exams will be given. Any make-up exams will be at the discretion of the instructor, and will require that advance notice be received before a test is given, stating the reasons for the absence. Supporting documentation will be required.

  10. ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY: Cheating, plagiarism, submitting another person’s material as one’s own, or doing work for another person which will receive academic credit are all impermissible. This includes the use of unauthorized books, notebooks, or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination, the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports, or term papers, laboratory reports, drawings or the presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student’s own work. Disciplinary action may result in no credit for an assignment or exam and/or failure of the course.

  11. TEXT AND REFERENCES:
    1. Voice and Data Communications Handbook, by Bates & Gregory
    2. Data and Network Communications, by Miller
    3. Telecommunications Primer: Signals, Building Blocks, & Networks, by Carne

  12. PREREQUISITES:
    TSM 110 and Sophomore standing.

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