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SMDS, MANs, and Fiber Networks

Course Status: Released
Course Language: English
Course Duration: 4 Hours
Deployment Options: Online, Interactive CDs, Network, Downloads, Intranet

Audience
Managerial and network operational staff
Prerequisites
The course Fast Packet Technologies provides a good introduction; some knowledge of wide area networks and local area networks
Course Aim
To give the student an appreciation of developments in the SMDS, FDDI, and SONET/SDH technologies
Learning Objectives
Explain the need for SMDS networks and outline their features.
Describe the SMDS interface and how to access the SMDS network.
Describe the properties of MANs.
Describe the fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) protocol.
Describe the operation of SONET and SDH.
Topics Covered
SMDS operation
- Introduction
- Speed of transmission
- SNI
- LAN routing
- Security features
SMDS Interface Protocol
- SMDS interface
- SMDS access
- MAC sublayer operation
- Physical layer operation
- Inter-switch operation
MANs
- Features of MANs
- DQDB access method
- DQDB frames
- DQDB priority
FDDI
- Characteristics of MANs
- Operation of an FDDI ring
- Development of TPDDI
- FDDI protocols
SONET and SDH
- Introduction
- SONET protocol layers
- SONET frame
- SDH frame
- Extracting a data stream