IT227G01

This course is an introductory to the evolving network technology.  This provides students the basic understanding and appreciation on data communications and networking: how data traverse from one end node to the other; the international standards to make data communication happens; the OSI Reference model which serves as a reference by all network hardware/devices manufacturers; the TCP/IP as the language of the Internet; the representation of data (voice, text, multimedia, etc) in the form of electronic signals, the process it go through for successful transmission, and causes of error; the types of transmission media used for the signal to traverse; the types of interfaces of devices (DTE/DCE); and the protocols involve for transmitting and retransmitting of data from the source node to the destination node .