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Course Syllabus | | Keith Wright kwright8@att.net Office: Washington, DC
Office Hours: Available Upon Request
Phone: 770-490-4106
Greetings to everyone! I am glad to welcome all of you to NETW585. During our time together it is both my hope and expectation that you will complete this course with an understanding of network design and management.For me networking started with me completing my Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology in 1988. I then went on to complete a Master of Science in Computer Science, from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1992. In 2011, I completed my doctoral studies at Georgia State University. From about 1988 – Present, I have worked for various Telecommunication companies, such as, AT&T Bell Labs, Tellabs, Nortel, and Cisco Systems. My most enjoyable position was designing fiber optic networks for many of the top tier ISP/Service Providers today.I love to play tennis; I wish that I could play tennis for a living. I play in KSWISS Men’s Single League, T2 Tennis, Peach Tennis and tournaments. I also love running at least three times a week. The other activities I enjoy, working on my computer, playing with my dog and enjoying the beautiful outdoors.If you every need to contact me, please give me a call or email me. We can setup a time that is convenient. Please remember, I am here to help you not only complete the course, but also to be sure that you can master the concepts and skills that the course offers. My contact information is listed in the syllabus.

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Network Design and Management focuses on the technologies and processes used to design, optimize, and manage networks. Topics include the functions of network standards, protocols and architecture, network design and optimization processes, and network management. The course also covers network design specifics to support high bandwidth multimedia applications, wireless local area connections, and security strategies. Students use networking software tools to build and simulate network models.
Prerequisites: NETW505 or NETW525 | | | Terminal Course Objectives | DeVry University course content is constructed from curriculum guides developed for each course that are in alignment with specific Terminal Course Objectives. The Terminal Course Objectives (TCOs) define the learning objectives that the student will be required to comprehend and demonstrate by course completion. The TCOs that will be covered in detail each week can be found in the Objectives section for that particular week. Whenever possible, a reference will be made from a particular assignment or discussion back to the TCO that it emphasizes. A | Given a set of network business requirements, describe both the network design process and the factors that require it to be a part of the network management process. | B | Given a set of performance criteria and constraints for a data network, identify several potential solutions that yield to an optimal network. | C | Given a data network, describe standards and protocols used in the network architecture, understand major problems associated with its management, and describe standard functions to manage these problems | D | Given a data network, understand tools and techniques required to effectively monitor and manage the network, its traffic type, and the status of different devices on the network. Compare and contrast the major management tools available for day-to-day network management. | E | Given a set of potential network design solutions, identify the optimal solution for a data network to satisfy a given set of performance criteria and constraints for the support of a network carrying multimedia and videoconferencing. Develop a design that provides the high bandwidth and low delay required for such applications. | F | Given a network design, identify an optimal network security strategy for the network design, including wireless networks. | | | | Course Schedule | Week, TCOs, and Topics | Readings | Assignments | Week 1
TCO A Identifying and Analyzing
Customer Needs and Goals | Chapter 01: Analyzing Business Goals and ConstraintsChapter 02: Analyzing Technical Goals and Tradeoffs | Graded Discussion Topics Course Project: Topic Selection | Week 2
TCO B Analyzing Requirements and
Collecting Network Information | Chapter 03: Characterizing the Existing InternetworkChapter 04: Characterizing Network Traffic |

Graded Discussion Topics | Week 3
TCO C Network Design & Management | Chapter 05: Designing A Network TopologyChapter 07: Selecting Switching and Routing ProtocolsChapter 09: Developing Network Management Strategies | Graded Discussion Topics Course Project: Introduction, Problem Statement, Scope, and Objectives | Week 4
TCO D Technology Selection:
Campus and Enterprise | Chapter 10: Selecting Technologies and Devices for Campus NetworksChapter 11: Selecting Technologies and Devices for Enterprise Networks | Graded Discussion Topics Midterm | Week 5
TCO E Network Testing and Optimization | Chapter 12: Testing Your Network DesignChapter 13: Optimizing Your Network Design | Graded Discussion Topics Course Project: Documentation of Existing Network | Week 6
TCO F Network Security Strategies | Chapter 08: Developing Network Security Strategies | Graded Discussion Topics | Week 7
TCO F Wireless Security | Chapter 08: Developing Network Security Strategies | Graded Discussion Topics Course Project: Final Paper | Week 8
All TCOs All Topics | Final Exam | | | | Due Dates for Assignments & Exams | Unless otherwise specified, the following applies. * Access to most weeks begins on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. Mountain Time (MT). * All assignments are to be submitted on or before Sunday at the end of the specified week that they are due, 11:59 p.m. (MT). * All quizzes and exams are to be completed on or before Sunday at the end of the specified week that they open, 11:59 p.m. (MT). Week 8 opens at 12:01 a.m. (MT) Saturday of the seventh week. Any assignments or exams must be completed by 11:59 p.m. (MT) Thursday of the eighth week. | | | Assignment Values and Letter Grades | The maximum score in this class is 1,000 points. The categories, which contribute to your final grade, are weighted as follows. Assignment | Points | Weighting | Discussions
(30 Pts, Weeks 1–7) | 210 | 21% | Midterm | 150 | 15% | Course Project (Wk 1/30 pts, Wk 3/60 pts, Wk 5/60 pts, Wk 7/190 pts) | 340 | 34% | Final Exam | 300 | 30% | Total Points | 1,000 | 100% |
All of your course requirements are graded using points. At the end of the course, the points are converted to a letter grade using the scale in the table below. Letter Grade | Points | Percentage | A | 930 - 1000 | 93% to 100% | A- | 900 - 929 | 90% to 92.9% | B+ | 870 - 899 | 87% to 89.9% | B | 830 - 869 | 83% to 86.9% | B- | 800 - 829 | 80% to 82.9% | C+ | 770 - 799 | 77% to 79.9% | C | 730 - 769 | 73% to 76.9% | C- | 700 - 729 | 70% to 72.9% | D+ | 670 - 699 | 67% to 69.9% | D | 630 - 669 | 63% to 66.9% | D- | 600 - 629 | 60% to 62.9% | F | 599 and below | Below 60% | | | | Late Assignment Policy | Late work is strongly discouraged. Turning in work late can impair your chances of success in the course. However, DeVry Online understands that life and emergencies do happen, and thus, we offer this late policy: For serious emergencies, your instructor will decide whether your late work may be accepted for full or reduced credit. Serious emergencies include: serious illness, accidents, natural disasters, eCollege server outages, etc. E-mail your instructor the information about your emergency and request approval to make up the assignment, lab, quiz, or exam. If you receive approval, make up the work according to the plan set by you and your instructor. For all other matters, i.e. work, technical, or other personal issues, your instructor will decide whether your late work may be accepted. Your instructor will impose a per diem late penalty of 5% of the assignment points per day up to seven days. For late work make-up which is not emergency-based, you should request approval BEFORE the final deadline. If homework solutions are shared with the class, your instructor reserves the right to decline to accept late work after the sharing of the solutions, or to require that an alternative assignment be completed, if one is available. Only one non-emergency late submission will be allowed per student per course.This late work policy applies to all graded assessments (including Final Exams) in the course with the exception of the discussions, which require approval of the College faculty management administrators. See the "Policies" item in Course Home for information regarding the discussions make-up policy. | | | Undergraduate Attendance Policy | Attendance is directly tied to academic performance; therefore, regular attendance is required. Professors may choose to include class attendance and/or participation as criteria for computing student grades. Thus, students who do not attend class regularly risk earning lower or failing grades. Absenteeism may also result in warning, advising or dismissal. Students may be dismissed (withdrawn) from DeVry or from individual courses for attendance violations. Students who never complete an academic event (see Academic Events) during the first two weeks of the session are dropped for non-attendance. Students dropped from all courses because of non-attendance should note that they are also dropped from courses in which they are enrolled for future sessions. Additionally, students dropped from a course or courses for non-attendance during the first two weeks are precluded from appealing.Attendance is taken for all eight weeks of the session. Attendance is recorded daily based on each academic event to ensure the last date of attendance is available for the purpose of determining the timeframe of attendance as well as the amounts of earned and unearned financial aid. Understanding the attendance policy is especially important to you, because it’s directly tied to your academic performance and is recorded daily throughout the session. Please review the detailed attendance policy to understand how your attendance/participation affects you. | | | Discussion Requirements | In the Discussion areas of the course, you, as a student, can interact with your instructor and classmates to explore questions and comments related to the content of this course. Discussions will always close Sunday, 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time (MT). A successful student in online education is one who takes an active role in the learning process. You are, therefore, encouraged to participate in the discussion areas to enhance your learning experience throughout each week.The discussions will be graded for1. Frequency – the number and regularity of your discussion comments, and2. Quality – the content of your contributions.Frequency – the number and regularity of your contributions. Students are expected to log into the course and post (respond) in the discussion topics on a minimum of three separate days per week in each graded discussion, beginning no later than Wednesday.Quality – the content of your contributions. Examples of quality posts include: * providing additional information to the discussion; * elaborating on previous comments from others; * presenting explanations of concepts or methods to help fellow students; * presenting reasons for or against a topic in a persuasive fashion; * sharing personal experiences that relate to the topic; and * providing a URL and an explanation for an area you researched on the Internet. Full credit is awarded when both high quality and required frequency are met.For policy on discussions (and all other policies), please review the information contained in "Policies" under the Course Home section of your course. | | | Plagiarism and Keller Graduate Citations | Plagiarism & CitationsPlagiarism is a violation of the Academic Integrity code of this institution and will not be tolerated. The plagiarism policy applies to every aspect of your coursework including discussions, exams, quizzes, essays, assignments, etc. It is important that students fully cite any outside ideas, text and visual aids they reference in that work.If you copy from, rely on, or paraphrase from your text or from any other source, you must include in-text citations. For any source other than your text, you must also include the proper reference material including the full URL and date accessed if the source is the web. Failure to do so is a violation of DeVry Academic Standards. Instructors are required to follow the DeVry Academic Integrity policy. Refer to your student handbook for details.As a part of our commitment to academic integrity, your work in this course may be submitted to turnitin.com, an online plagiarism checking service. Turnitin.com operates a secure database and protects your privacy by assigning report numbers to all student work stored in its database. The purpose of using this service is to help protect the integrity of a DeVry degree, which in turn helps to protect your work and your investment in a DeVry education. See Turnitin.com for more details.How to Avoid Plagiarism Style Guide | Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University recommends all graduate students purchase and make use of the official style guide entitled, Writing the Research Paper: A Handbook, 7th edition, by Anthony C. Winkler and Jo Ray McCuen. This handbook includes information on the following styles: APA, MLA, CEE, CMS, and Columbia Online. Students can use any of these five styles unless otherwise instructed to use one of them exclusively. Students who have purchased the University's previous official style guide entitled, The Business Student Writers Manual and Guide to the Internet, by Thomas P. Bergman, Stephen M. Garrison, and Gregory M. Scott, will NOT be required to purchase another style guide. The new style guide is available through the online bookstore. | |
Below are two tutorials covering two of the five acceptable styles: APA Guidelines | APA Guidelines for Citing Sources
This tutorial provides a resource for citing references in papers using the current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The following is covered within the tutorial: the purposes of APA documentation, guidelines and examples on how to cite original sources in the text of your paper using parenthetical citations, and how to format the reference list and an entire paper. | | MLA Guidelines | MLA Guidelines for Citing Sources
MLA style provides writers a system of cross-referencing their sources and protecting them from accusations of plagiarism. This tutorial goes over the purposes of MLA documentation, as well as methods and examples for using parenthetical citations, and how to format a Works Cited page. | | | | | Frequently Asked Questions | When are grades calculated, and how can I view my grades? * You must complete any quizzes and post your written assignments (if necessary) to the weekly Dropbox by Sunday 11:59 p.m. (MT) each week, except Week 8 which closes at 11:59 p.m. (MT) Thursday. * Once your work is reviewed, you should see comments and total points for each assignment in the Gradebook. Instructors should have Discussion work graded by the following Tuesday and all other assignments by the following Friday. * You may check your progress at any time by going to the Gradebook, selecting the week and then your name. * Click on the points earned for each assignment in the Gradebook to see any instructor comments.What should I do if a discrepancy is found with my grade?1. Double-check the error and try to determine what caused it.

2. Send your instructor an email explaining your findings.

3. Trust that any error in grading will be corrected quickly. What if I cannot get my work submitted on time? * If you have an emergency that will cause your work to be late, please contact your instructor in advance of the due date so that arrangements can be made. Your instructor may reserve the right to deduct points for work turned in late based on the reason and the timeliness of notice. * If a technical problem prevents you from meeting the scheduled due date, please contact the Help Desk at 1-800-594-2402 and immediately email your instructor about the situation.What should I do if I have a disability that requires accommodation?We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for eligible students with documented disabilities as defined by state and federal laws relating to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Our intent is to ensure that every student who makes a request for accommodations under ADA is advised of the accommodation process as promptly as possible. If you are a student with a verifiable documented disability, and you can provide medical documentation regarding this disability, then contact our ADA Officer at adaofficer@devry.edu or adaofficer@keller.edu for more information on how to receive ADA accommodations in your online classes or fax your request to 630-929-9745. How can I get extra credit?It is policy that extra credit will not be allowed in online courses for any reason. | | | Student Disability Services | What should I do if I have a disability that requires accommodation? DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for eligible students with documented disabilities as defined by state and federal laws relating to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Our intent is to ensure that every student who makes a request for accommodations under ADA is advised of the accommodation process as promptly as possible. If you are a student with a verifiable documented disability, and you can provide medical documentation regarding this disability, then contact our Office of Student Disability Services at adaofficer@devry.edu or adaofficer@keller.edu for more information on how to receive ADA accommodations in your classes. You may also fax your request to 630-929-9745. | | |