ELEC 121V - Network Infrastructure

4 credits

Students practice the analysis and application of physical level services and methodologies as applied to the telecommunication industry. Students will define and apply the essential components of data, voice, and video systems. They will also define the characteristics of the major wired and wireless media technologies and the characteristics of analog and digital transmission. Students will build a model of a Local Area Network (LAN). They will also define cellular technologies and understand the evolution from 1G to 4G devices and LTE connections and their importance. Finally students will review the operation of smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices and their importance in computer networking. Troubleshooting and analysis will be done by lab exercises on physical equipment or computer software simulation.

Corequisite: ELEC 125N Electronic Systems 2 .
Prerequisites: ELEC 120V Network Fundamentals  and ELEC 123V Advanced Networking .