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Fast Packet Technologies

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

Audience
Operational and technical staff
Prerequisites
Some knowledge of wide area networking as outlined in the course Packet Switching WANs
Course Aim
To overview technologies based on Frame Relay and cell relay and access their application in networks
Learning Objectives
Discuss the development of fast-packet technologies.
Describe the Frame Relay network, contrasting it with X.25 and pointing out its advantages.
Explain the principle of cell relay and outline some cell relay implementations.
Discuss SONET and SDH, describe their unusual frame structure, and point out the benefits of multiplexing.
Outline the operations of MANs with particular reference to slots and DQDB.
Topics Covered
Introduction
- Analog v digital networks
- Fast packet evolution
- Fast packet technologies
Frame relay
- Rationale for frame relay
- Techniques
- Errors and congestion
- Committed information rate
- The frame relay protocol
- Encapsulation
Cell relay implementations
- The cell relay principle
- SMDS
- ATM and B-ISDN
Metropolitan area networks
- Slots
- Topology
- DQDB
SONET and SDH
- Physical standards
- STS-1 v STM-1
- Multiplexing