48721 Strategic e-Business Technologies
6cp; availability: BBus students only (it cannot be undertaken by Engineering students)Subject coordinator: Dr Chris Peterson
The objectives of this subject are to introduce the basic concepts and terminology used in telecommunications engineering; to give basic, up-to-date, hands-on, technical skills; to familiarise students with the technology underlying the internet, telecommunications and electronic business, to allow the students to make informed decisions about technology and system security.
Topics include the following. software (applications and operating systems, make or buy, ERP solutions, estimating, software engineering), PCs and Office Networks analogue/digital, bandwidth, compression, codes, human factors, data communications, protocols, OSI model, the Public Switched Telephone Network, switched circuit and packet switching (T channels, ISDN, X25, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET, modems, ADSL), the internet (History, TCP/IP, WWW, Java, CGI, architectures, sockets, services, DNS, routing), wireless technologies (satellites, GSM), and security (purpose, threats, trust, authentication, encryption, SET, signatures, certificates).
The laboratory component is to install a Windows operating system on a PC, to install an ethernet interface card and driver, and to install and configure web browsers, servers and FTP applications.
Typical availability
Autumn semester, City campus
Access conditions
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