Academic Year/Semester: 111-1
Course Number: 130039
Instructor: Yan-Zheng Chen
Course Title: Enterprise Communication Networks
Grade: 3 Credits: 3.0
Class location: Room 228, Management Building
Class hours: 4bcd
This course aims to cultivate the following core competencies for students:
- Application and innovation ability in information technology (Bachelor’s degree program)
- Professional competence in information technology (Master’s degree program)
- Ability to analyze and solve problems (Master’s degree program)
Course objectives:
Learn the basic concepts and technologies of networking and communication.
Instructor office hours: Wednesday 14:10~16:00, Room 5041, College of Management.
Teaching approach:
Class lectures, hands-on network cable making, network equipment operation, and video tutorials on wireless network security.
Grading criteria:
* Homework/Project: 30%
* Mid-Term Exam.: 35%
* Final-Term Exam.: 35%
Course schedule (week, topic, activities, evaluation/assignment, text, etc.):
Week 1: Welcome to the Cloud, Lecture, Questions, Ch 1
Week 2: Network Standards, Lecture, Questions, Ch 2
Week 3: Network Standards, Lecture, Questions, Ch 2
Week 4: Network Security, Lecture, Questions, Ch 3
Week 5: Network and Security Management, Lecture, Questions, Ch 4
Week 6: Ethernet (802.3) Switched LANs, Lecture, Questions/Hands-on network cable making, UTP network cable production, Ch 5
Week 7: Ethernet (802.3) Switched LANs, Lecture, Questions/Wireshark Packet Capture, Ch 5
Week 8: Mid-Term Exam
Week 9: Wireless LANs I, Lecture, Questions, Ch 6
Week 10: Wireless LANs II, Lecture, Questions/Wireless network security video teaching, Ch 7
Week 11: TCP/IP Internetworking I (Routing), Lecture, Questions/Network tools, Ch 8
Week 12: TCP/IP Internetworking I (IPv4, IPv6), Lecture, Questions/Wireshark Packet Capture, Ch 8
Week 13: TCP/IP Internetworking II, Lecture, Questions/Wireshark Packet Capture, Ch 9
Week 14: Carrier WANs, Lecture, Questions, Ch 10
Week 15: Network Applications, Lecture, Questions, Ch 11
Week 16: Final Exam.
Week 17-18: Independent and diverse learning: network cable making practice, IP router operation, recent network technology seminar.