On course completion students shall:
- Have an understanding of what computer communication involves.
- Have an overall survey of the most inportant standards regarding data communication.
- Understand a protocol and be able to see it in a total communication relation.
- Be familiar with various network solutions.
- Be able to choose solutions on the basis of economic or functional criteria.
- Be able to install and maintain windows network.
- Understand the structure and use of Wide Area network (WAN) og the protocols, with emphasize on the Internet and TCP/IP.
Historical overview:
Concepts, principles and standards. Asynchronized and synchronized communication. Host machines and terminals. Terminal emulation. Terminal switching, Multiplexing and condensing.
LAN:
Cabling, media, technology and acess methods.
LAN protocols, TCP/IP and IPX/SPX VLAN Virtual LAN, layering of software, the OSI-model. Terminal/host machine over LAN. Operation. Peer to peer LAN. Server based LAN. Client/server technology.
WAN:
Packet switchin vs. circuit switcing, routing, available communication services. Security and operation in a computer network. ATM Asyncron Transfer Mode.
IBM evironment: SNA architecture. LAN and IBM-environment. SDLC-protocol.
Windows 2000 network:
Operation and maintainance of Windows 2000 server.
- Architecture of Windows 2000
- Active directory, DSN and DHCP
- FAT, FAT32, VFAT and NTFS
- Installing Windows 2000 server
- Settings and errorcontrol of TCP/IP
- Administration of user accounts and workgroups
- Access rights localy and by network
- DFS(Distributed File System) and replication
- Diskspace, compressing and cryptation
- Printing over network
- Administration of a mixed environment with Novell Netware, Windows 2000 and other platforms
- RAS for Windows 2000 with modem and telephone
- Intra networks. VPN
WAN:
- Software and protocol hierarcy
- Switching, routing and traffic control
- Transport service, protocols, flowcontrol, application interface, sockets, TCP, UDP and IP
Lectures, practical and mandatory assignments. Communication solutions for given situations (case study).
Mandatory exercises in Windows 2000 network who is going to be consecutive approved.
Oral examination. The grade is given on the basis of a total assessment by oral examination.
