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NET 753 - Data Networks and Communication


Last Date of Approval: Fall 2022

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
This course will provide students the opportunity to learn all aspects of communications, this course provides a comprehensive overview of how information, including voice and data, travels throughout the world. Topics include fundamental switching and signaling principles, the history of telecommunications, PBX principles and configuration, multiplexing principles, baseband and broadband technologies, mobile, wireless, fiber optic transmission, VOIP and emerging technologies. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various technology topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the technology and how to apply those concepts in a lab setting, which is a skill that should be beneficial in any/all types of technology careers. This course will also help students gain hands-on technology literacy which will be of vital significance when making important work-related decisions.

Prerequisites: NET 110  , NET 138  , NET 230  
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, virtual, and/or online

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: Face-to-Face: None; Online: 8-week online students will have a per credit hour e-book fee automatically charged to their account.

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

a. Identify and be able to terminate phone lines of different types. 
b. Identify different types of fiber optic construction 
c. Validate different types of wireless communications 
d. Analyse basic diagrams of communications systems
e. Identify the basic network functions and terminology are used in networking different systems together.
f. Explain what a VoIP system is, how it is installed, Configured, its relationship to other systems.
g. Employ basic architecture of VoIP and how to implement this architecture in to a business model.
h. Restructure the basics of programming of a VoIP telephone system dialplan.

Objectives: 

a. The student will be able to classify the basic network functions and terminology are used in networking different systems together.
b. The student will be able to understand basic network concepts such as protocols, servers, routers, gateways, hubs, LANs, and how these components make up a WAN.
c. Interpret what a VoIP system is, how it is installed, Configured, its relationship to other systems.
d. Employ basic architecture of VoIP and how to implement this architecture in to a business model.
e. Understand the basics of programming a VoIP telephone system dialplan.



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