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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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