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ICT 2: Computer Systems and Networks

Course CodeMEDI-408
Lecture hours per week
Lab hours per week
Course AvailabilityOpen
Description

This program is an introduction to the concepts and practical aspects of systems and networking important to the media engineering designer with natural emphasis on multimedia devices and their inter-communication

The topics covered in this course are: 

  • Computer architecture: desktops, towers, laptops, handhelds, PC-compatibles, Mac 
  • Operating systems: Windows, MacOS, Linux 
  • Interface standards: serial vs. parallel, USB, FireWire 
  • Transmission media: twisted pair cable, optical fiber cable, wireless 
  • Network concepts, OSI model, multiple access protocols 
  • Network areas: personal (PAN), local (LAN), wide (WAN) 
  • Network standards: Bluetooth, Ethernet wire/wireless 
  • Internet architecture, TCP-IP, domain-address translation, ping, hops, bandwidth/speed 
  • Cellular phone systems: architecture, switching, coverage, bandwidth/speed 
  • Network servers: multimedia servers file server, streaming video server downloading, database server, web server
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