Computer networks are an integral part of business and as such our Computer Networks course will equip you with the skills you need to design, configure, manage and administer distributed network systems to a professional standard. As part of the course, you will look at computer and networking infrastructures and characteristics like flexibility, scalability, performance, resilience, quality of service and security, and design choices and implications of corporate infrastructure.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

In order to pass the course, the students should be able to:

• Explain in a concise manner how the Internet is constructed and functions.

• Reason about design choices at different layers in the TCP/IP protocol stack.

• Use standard tools to debug a network path.

• Theorize about establishing and maintaining communication at different levels of abstraction.

• Identify and discuss usual security issues regarding computer network protocols and applications.