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Apr 19, 2024
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2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CET 279 - Network Wiring, Design, and Installation 3 CR
Recommend students have basic computer literacy and internet skills. Networking experience is desirable but not required. Students should be capable of lifting light loads and climbing ladders to work at ceiling heights. This introductory course focuses on cabling issues related to data and voice connections. It provides an understanding of the industry and its worldwide standards, types of media and cabling, physical and logical networks, and signal transmission. Students will develop skills in reading network design documentation, determining and purchasing cabling equipment, pulling and mounting cable, managing cable, selecting wiring closets, terminating cable at patch panels, installing jacks, and testing cable. This hands-on lab-oriented course stresses documentation, design, and installation issues, (as well as laboratory and on-the-job safety) and working effectively in group environments. [32-48-80] Lab Fee
Course Learning Outcomes:
- At the end of the course the student will be able to recognize and describe logical and physical network topologies in terms of the media and network hardware.
- At the end of the course the student will be able to compare current network technologies in terms of speed, access method, operation, topology, and media.
- At the end of the course the student will be able to explain the purpose, features, and functions of current common network hardware and the OSI layer with which each is associated.
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