LAN Connectivity

Course Number:  665-ICM
Recommended Duration:  3 days

Intended Audience
Managers and personnel with a background in data processing and/or data communications. Students could be involved in planning, administering or using LAN and LAN-related technology.

Objectives
This course will provide an overview of LAN technology with the primary focus on LAN applications and LAN technical components required to support LAN-based applications. LAN topologies, media, data flows and comparisons will be defined. The course will define connectivity alternatives between LANs and other LANs and between mainframes, minicomputers and LANs.

Prerequisites
Completion of the "Basic Data Communications" or equivalent experience.

Topics

• LAN Evolution and the PC/Workstation Technology

• LAN Applications

• Comparison of LAN-based Applications to Minicomputer and Mainframe Applications

• LAN Components and Functions

• LAN Interconnectivity Issues

• Ethernet LANs

• Token-Ring LANs

• Bridges, Gateways and Routers

• Comparisons of Ethernet to Token-Ring

• LAN Network Operating Systems

• ISO LAN Management Model

• LAN Administration

• Novell, NetBios, TCP/IP-UNIX, OS/2 Server Requester, Client/Server, OSF, AppleTalk, Vines, LAN Troubleshooting