TITLE: Advanced Network Systems

1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
   A primarily lab-based course, studying the hardware and software necessary to implement and maintain modern Local Area Networks. Prerequisite: TSM 241.
   
   
2. PURPOSE:
   Develop the skills necessary to design, implement, and maintain a LAN. Study the principles and techniques of WAN connectivity.
   
   
3. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
   To provide the Telecommunications student with the skills necessary to work with a variety of modern LAN topologies-Design, Implementation and Setup, as well as troubleshooting and maintaining. Emphasis is placed on Ethernet and TCP/IP technologies.
   
   
4. CONTENT OUTLINE:
   
   1. Designing the LAN
      
   2. Peer-to-Peer Ethernet LAN
      
   3. 10BaseT LAN
      
   4. TCP/IP
      
   5. LAN Connectivity: Hubs and Switches
      
   6. Network Troubleshooting
      
   7. Server-based LANs
      
   8. Routers and Routing
      
   9. WAN Design
      
   
   
5. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
   Lecture & Discussion, Demonstration, and Lab work.
   
   
6. FIELD, CLINICAL, AND/OR LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:
   Considerable portion of instruction time will be spent in the lab.
   
   
7. RESOURCES:
   Web-Page references.
   
   
8. GRADING PROCEDURES:
1. GRADING FACTORS:

   Factor	Final Grade %
   7 Exam Grades	60%
   Lab Reports	40%

   
   
2. GRADING SCALE

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

   
   
9. ATTENDANCE POLICY:
   This course will adhere to the policy published in the MSU Undergraduate Bulletin. Attendance will be recorded each lab session. No provisions will be made for making up absences from labs. A student is allowed ONE ABSENCE for each MIDTERM. That is, one allowed absence before midterm, and one after. A missed lab will still result in a reduction of the grade for that lab report. Two or more absences within a single midterm will automatically fail that student. Note that this does not apply to the Recitation sessions--but no provisions will be made for making up quizzes.
   
   
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; or the presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student's own work. Disciplinary action may be taken beyond the academic discipline administered by the faculty member who teaches the course in which the cheating took place.
    
    
11. TEXT AND REFERENCES:
    Internetworking with TCP/IP by Douglas Comer. ISBN: 0-13-018380-6
    
    
12. PREREQUISITES:
    TSM 241.