CET 2615 LAN SWITCHING AND WIRELESS 3 credits

Prerequisite: CET 1610. This is the third of four courses designed to provide students with classroom and laboratory experience to achieve professional certification as a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). Instruction includes networking, network terminology and protocols, network standards, local area networks (LANs), LAN segmentation, segmentation techniques, Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Spanning Tree Protocol virtual LAN, and wireless LANs. Students progress to completing advanced router configurations in the lab; they will demonstrate an understanding of LAN switching and virtual local area networks (VLANs), advanced LAN and wireless LAN design. 47 contact hours.