CNT 293 - Network Design

Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course is designed to build upon knowledge of network functionality and provide skills used to design routed and switched network infrastructures for small business or basic enterprise networks. Students will work through network design fundamentals including use of appropriate technologies and the importance of modularity, hierarchy, scalability, resiliency and other design considerations.

Prerequisites: CNT 220
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: CNT 230

Course Category: Occupational
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter Only
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Course Competencies

Explain network design methodologies.
Summarize the importance and application of best-practice design objectives.
Design an effective addressing scheme.
Develop a plan to address scalability in factors important to network designs.
Design a basic campus network.
Design a basic enterprise network.
Summarize considerations for expanding existing networks.
Explore the importance of emerging technologies in network designs.
Summarize considerations essential for security in network design.