NETWORKING

Duration: 4 weeks (40 hours, 2 hrs/day)

Grade: 9 to 12

Cost: $ 1999 + HST

Course Overview

• INTRODUCTION
• Transferring information via networks
• Supporting modern applications
• Specifying communication requirements
• Defining networks, form and function
• Supporting QoS
• Classifying networks:
• LAN
• WAN
• Packet
• Circuit
• Wired
• Wireless
• Employing protocols and operating systems
• Standardizing data communications
• Dividing tasks with layered protocols
• CONSTRUCTING DATA LINKS
• Improving efficiency with error-control
• Detecting and correcting errors
• Forward and feedback error correction
• Encoding information
• Defining bits, bytes and words
• Taking advantage of digital encoding
• Framing and timing data
• The necessity of using frames
• Reducing errors with synchronous encoding
• DEPLOYING PHYSICAL MEDIA
• Identifying media types and challenges
• Selecting copper cable types
• Benefiting from fiber optics
• Employing wireless links
• Utilizing radio frequencies and bands
• Managing interference and noise
• CAPITALIZING ON ETHERNET
• Examining 802 LAN standards
• Forwarding with MAC addresses
• Contrasting shared and switched LANs
• Investigating Ethernet operations
• Maximizing the cost-benefit ratio
• Dissecting Etherswitch operation
• Adding QoS to Ethernet
• Comparing Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching
• HARNESSING WI-FI FOR USER MOBILITY
• Communicating via radio waves
• Types of Wi-Fi networks: a, b, g and n
• Capitalizing on instant infrastructure
• Integrating Wi-Fi operations
• Mitigating the challenges of sharing bandwidth
• Verifying accurate transmission
• Deploying Access Points (AP)
• Forwarding traffic via the AP
• Utilizing Service Set Identifiers (SSIDs)
• BUILDING NETWORKS USING TCP/IP AND ROUTERS
• TCP/IP: A practical protocol suite
• Employing TCP for data and UDP for voice and video
• Distinguishing between hosts and routers
• Taking advantage of TCP/IP's multiple applications and utilities
• Streamlining data and VoIP traffic
• IP addressing and datagrams
• Increasing efficiency with well-designed addressing schemes
• Interpreting net-prefixes and subnet masks
• How routers operate
• Relaying traffic with NetID & routing tables
• Discovering paths with routing protocols
• Upgrading routers for QoS
• IMPLEMENTING SECURITY BEST PRACTICES
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Authenticating users
• Enabling VPN encrypted tunnels
• Providing information integrity
• Benchmarking risks and deploying countermeasures
• Analyzing threats and security requirements
• Encrypting data
• Adopting digital certificates and signatures
• Ensuring LAN security
• Wi-Fi security: WPA, 802.11i, AES
• Isolating workgroups with VLANs
• CREATING ENTERPRISE NETWORKS
• Employing telecom circuits
• Circuit-switching data streams
• Deploying E1 and T1 leased lines
• Facilitating inter-site communications
• Choosing xDSL options
• LAN Extension Services (LES)
• Integrating teleworkers and branch offices
• Selecting scalable carrier data-services
• Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• ATM
• Frame Relay
• Enhanced ISP services

For more information, please call us at 647-430-7478 or email us at:hr@whizkids.ca