Syllabus FALL 2004:
Syllabus
Text Author's Website:
Stallings, Business Data Communications
Telecommunications History readings: Search Google or use your
favorite search engine to
look for a brief history of telecommunications. I tried the key words,
telecommunications, history, and brief and got lots of references.
Google
(Bill's 200-Year Condensed History of Telecommunications: Telecomm History)
My list of telecommunication voice and data history:
My History
A Brief History of the Internet:
Internet History
Traceroute Assignment:
Tracing the Networks
Example ping times to our ISP :
Calvin to Mr.Net (old slow connection)
Connection to home on DSL
To Home (better connection)
An article on a new tool for spying on employee e-mail: Mark Gibbs, "Sex, likely lies and software", Network World, 1/28/2002
Telecommunication Models HW #3: Assignment #3
An Article from LASCOMM about end-pumped optical transmission not requiring repeaters: Fiber for Physicists & Engineers
Descriptions and pictures of how AM, FM, QAM, SSB, and DSB work: modulation
Test 1 information: Test1
Sendmail Tutorial: Sendmail
HTTP 1.1 Specifications: HTTP
HTTP sample session: Session
ADSL reading: Search Altavista or use your favorite search engine to
look for a white paper on ADSL. Try the key words, ADSL and white.
AltaVista
(Direct reference if you have trouble finding one: ADSL Tutorial)
(This technical reference explains the DMT multitone technique that is the
technique used in the ADSL standard: DMT
VDSL Technology IssuesAn Overview:
VDSL
(Details of provider offering for business (Qwest): DSL Products
(Details of provider offering for residential (Qwest): DSL Products
How V.34 and V.32 Work: Traditional Analog Modems
What is V.90 56Kbps modem technology: V90.com
Note reference to "How V.90 Does its work": Details
A real good explanation from 3COM: Explanation
V.90 Modems: Specifications
Homework #4: Mapping the Networks
A good set of slides on a talk from JVC on HDTV and color compression: JustBitsFree
Another explanation of MPEG-2 Compression: MPEG-2
An explanation of MPEG-4: MPEG-4, The Media Standard
Test 2 information: Test2
Packet Radio What is Packet Radio
ISDN Interface standards: BRI, PRI, S, T
Final Projects Proposal and Reports: Project Requirements
Existing Technology of Cellular Networks-Mobile Phones: Reading
Lab #1 Packet Capture: Lab #1
IEEE 802 LAN Standards: References to each LAN standard
Shinning a Light on FDDI: FDDI
An Anixter white paper on LAN Backbone Switching that contains a summary of backbone technologies including FDDI and FDDI-II: Switching at the Backbone
Sonet/SDH Technical Summary: Sonet
MicroLegend SS7 Network Overview: SS7
An article on free-space optical transmission of high speed data: Free-space optics offer fast data option, USA Today, 4/11/2002
Test 3 information: Test3
Sample test 3: Test 3
EDI Standards Tutorial EDI
Final Projects Student Reports or presentations 2004:
GSM.ppt
GSM
NetMgtSys
OSPF
Biometrics
Biometrics.ppt
80211x
Proximity
GPS
VPN
Final test information: Final
*************** The references below this point refer to the last offering on the class. As new work is assigned this semester, it will be added above this line.****************
Lab #2 IP and AppleTalk Network Mapping: Lab #2
Telnet to Calvin: Calvin
Lab #3 Router Traffic Monitoring using CyberGuage (TM): Lab #3
Sample final from last year: Final
Overview information on the
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Another pointer with many links to related
material provided by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Secure Shell FAQ and pointers to IETF protocal drafts SSH
Free Long Distance Telephone - Dial Pad information: USA Today
Dial Pad site: www.dialpad.com
Home Networking technologies and references, Dr. Xinhua Feng: Home
Networking
Tutorials of the International Engineering Consortium: Web ProForum Tutorials