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Course Descriptions
CIT370
Data and Telecommunications
This course is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of communication systems commonly used to support data and telecommunications. The efficiency of synchronous and asynchronous transmission for local and wide area networks is considered in detail. The relationship between transmission protocol and network topologies will be explored in depth. Error detection and correction, line control, and security analysis are considered as they relate to information integrity in a distributed telecommunications environment. The student will study the effect of government legislation and regulation on telecommunications and data communications. 3 Credits (3 Lecture - 0 Lab)
Prerequisite(s): CIT270.