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Introduction
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CE321 Course Outline
Lectures cover two main threads:
Cisco Exploration CCNA 4: Connecting Networks
Assessed in Cisco MCQ test, Assessment and Exam
Material in addition to CCNA 4 (Beyond CCNA):
Assessed in the exam.
Assessment
Week 9 Cisco “Connecting Networks” assignment
Week 16 CCNA “Connecting Networks” MCQ test
Summer exam
Why include material in addition to Cisco CCNA material?
Cisco material is very good at explaining how to connect and configure systems.
But: there is a lot more to networking than this.
Additional material covers:
MPLS (much more up-to-date than Frame Relay in Cisco notes, which is mostly obsolete in Europe, but still still used for existing connections in US)
Introduction to traffic theory – essential to understand how networks are dimensioned
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Important information
These are only lecture “notes” you are expected to:
Attend all the labs and lectures (there will be additional comments and work put on the whiteboard or explained during the Zoom lectures. There will be live demonstrations of Packet Tracer to explain concepts.)
Read the Cisco material and additional reading
The Course page will be updated in advance each week with:
The lecture slides that will be covered.
Note there are two types of Lecture Notes:
Cisco CCNA slides (called CE321-cisco-chapterX)
Beyond CCNA content (called CE321-beyond-ccna-partX)
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Reading Material
Highly recommended reading
Cisco Networking Academy, Connecting Networks a Companion Guide (Cisco Press 2014)
Recommended reading (used for the Beyond CCNA material)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Computer Networks”, Fifth Edition Pearson, 2013 (Available online from Library)
Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach”, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011 (Available online from Library)
Bruce Davie and Yakov Rekhter, “MPLS Technology and Applications”, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
Background reading
Fred Halsall, “Computer Networking and the Internet”, Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2005.
Douglas E. Comer, “Internetworking with TCP/IP volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture”, Prentice Hall, 2006.
James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, “Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach Featuring the Internet”, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 2004.
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