Syllabus
    • Course objectives
    • Text, materials, and tools
    • Format, structure, and schedule
    • Grading
    • Academic honesty
    • Other issues: please see syllabus
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     Course Objectives
      •   Infrastructure Fundamentals
           •  Explain how networks such as the Internet move 
              messages from one computer to another through the 
              different hardware and software components
      •   Infrastructure Technologies
           •  Design a network infrastructure (at a novice level) using 
              a variety of LAN, backbone and WAN technologies and 
              components;
      •   Infrastructure Management
           •  Recognize the major decisions needed in managing 
              network infrastructure in organizations (e.g., network 
              security) and understand which options are likely to lead 
              to better performance.
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   Textbooks
   • Recommended
      Business Data Communications and Networking, 
   Jerry  Fitzgerald and Alan Dennis, 2015, 12th  Edition, 
   Wiley.  
    
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    Materials
   Entropy/Course Website
       Lecture Notes, articles, assignments, supplementary 
         materials, grades will be posted on Entropy and the Course 
         Website
       Communications concerning the course will be sent 
         through UNCW email list for course
       I will post lecture slides before class in Entropy and the 
         course website, however these slides serve as an 
         outline for the material discussed.  
       
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   Tentative Course Schedule
    Part 1: Infrastructure Fundamentals
      How Things Work
    Part 2: Infrastructure Technologies 
      Stuff You can Buy
    Part 3: Infrastructure Management
      Keeping the Infrastructure Alive
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