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This course repository provides the work completed and assignments given during Network Design, taught by Professor Goldstein. It includes essential information about the course, such as its description, objectives, and required materials. Please read through this document to familiarize yourself with the course content and expectations.
This course examines the basic principles and methodologies used in the design of both local and wide area networks.Topics include network options analysis, component and protocol selection, performance considerations and RFP development.
This course will help students understand:
- The role of network devices, operating systems, and protocols in a working network
- Factors affecting network performance evolution of networks
- Cost benefit analysis of network changes
- Network Security
- LAN and WAN design
- Wireless networking and emergent technologies
- Tradeoffs in performance and cost
- Ethics in sysadmin, network administration
- Economics of corporate IT
- Complexity of modern networks and impact of changes
- How to design and develop a network that can accommodate growth and change
- How to integrate various technologies into an existing network.