DeVry, Kansas City is the "model LAN/WAN"
lab in DeVry.
DeVry, Kansas City has in the past,
provided a strong technical background for the
telecommunications course.
DeVry, Kansas City has the ability to
provide a very technical hands-on experience to its
student customers.
DeVry, Kansas City has the ability to
provide an experienced technical product to its industry
customer.
DeVry, Kansas City should lead the
development of the Telecommunications course for
the full utilization of current and future
resources.
Both the hardware and software components
of a communications infrastructure are co-dependent.
Students will require some prerequisite
knowledge of NOS and OS to complete LAN and WAN models
A working knowledge of the logical LAN/WAN
models will complement learning in NOS courses.
LAN and WAN models interface to
telephone circuit switched networks, which should
be included in the LAN and WAN courses.
By completion of the LAN, WAN, NOS
I , and NOS I I ,
students should have a working knowledge/understanding
of a complete communications network structure.
DeVry has two customers: students and the
industry that hires our students.
Students will benefit from a maximum
amount of hands on experience and troubleshooting.
Industry-customers desire experienced
students in current technologies.
The rate of technological change
requires careful and detailed planning to
maintain a functional lab.
Courses such as PC hardware, LAN
technologies, WAN technologies, OS platforms, NOS
platforms, and IOS platforms must all work
together.
Both the hardware and software components
of a communications infrastructure are co-dependent.
Students will require some prerequisite
knowledge of NOS and OS to complete LAN and WAN models
A working knowledge of the logical LAN/WAN
models will complement learning in NOS courses.
LAN and WAN models interface to
telephone circuit switched networks, which should
be included in the LAN and WAN courses.
By completion of the LAN, WAN, NOS
I , and NOS I I ,
students should have a working knowledge/understanding
of a complete communications network structure.
Over the course of three terms, students could
obtain the ability to build LANs and WANs with all the necessary
operating systems.
This will prepare them for the Enterprise
Networking Project as well as their Senior Project.
The LAN/WAN diagrams presented on the following
pages are very much possible with our current equipment stock.
There are few items that I can not find from previous terms. Only
a few items are required (see list below) to complete some of the
LAN/WAN diagrams; however, there are various topologies that we
can still make with the current inventory.
Items purchase list
Two additional CSU/DSU Cross-connect
cables (made on site).
Two additional CSU/DSU units.
Telco connection provided by SL-1.
Two additional Ethernet AUI-10Base-T
transceivers for routers.
Two to three additional V.35
DTE cables for routers
One additional console
connection set for the routers.
Additional technologies should be brought into
the LAN/WAN Lab. FORE Systems has provided an offer to introduce
ATM technologies into the LAN/WAN Lab. Since Sprint and other
businesses in the industry desire ATM experience to the desktop,
we should develop this offer and implement it in to the LAN/WAN
budget.
Other Data Link Layer and Network Layer
technologies should be brought into the LAN/WAN environment to
provide enhanced training in various technologies.
Software Tools modeling and simulation tools
should be spread out over the degree course and reinforced in
proceeding classes with more extensive use and working knowledge.
Examples are Visio, Comnet, and Net Xray.
