Access and Core Network Technologies (5 ECTS)

Contents

Access technologies: xDSL, PPP, Cable Modems and DOCSIS, Powerline, Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Fast Ethernet (IEEE 802.3u), Giga and 10Giga Ethernet, Wireless Lan (802.11x) (overview), Token Ring (IEEE 802.5), Token Bus (IEEE 802.4); Metropolitan and WAN technologies: FDDI (ANMestrado.SI X3T9.5), DQDB (IEEE 802.6), Frame Relay, Assynchrounous Transfer Mode (ATM), Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Generalised MPLS; Physical framing: Digital Hierarchies, SONET, OC-x, PONs

Learning outcomes

• to explain the main theoretical concepts underpinning the major access and core network technologies;
• exemplify and discuss the use of such technologies over distinct networking scenarios;
• to understanding the principles of physical framing.

Bibliography

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• Alex Gillespie, Access Networks: Technology and V5 Interfacing, Artech House Publishers, 1999.

• S. Ovadia, Broadband Cable TV Access Networks: From Technologies toApplications, Prentice Hall, 2001.

• Steven Shepard, Metro Area Networking, McGraw-Hill Networking Professional, 2003.

• Daniel Minoli et al., Ethernet-Based Metro Area Networks, McGraw-Hill, 2002.

-- PauloCarvalho - 07 May 2007