CSC3407 Network Fundamentals and Routing |Semester 1, 2013 On-
campus Toowoomba| |Faculty or Section :||Faculty of Sciences|
|School or Department :||Maths and Computing| |Version produced
:||23 May 2013| Examiner: Yan Li Moderator: David Lai Explosive
growth in computer networks in the last several decades has
changed the uses of computers dramatically. The largest computer
network, the Internet, is now connecting millions of computers
in the world, providing services like email, file transfer,
hypermedia information retrieval across all kinds of different
platforms. This course is the introductory course in computer
networking. It concentrates on basic concepts and protocols of
computer networks. This course serves as a foundation for all
further courses in the computer networking program. This course
addresses the layered structure of computer communication
networks. It focuses on networking basics, routers and routing
basics and the most widely used TCP/IP protocol suite. After
this course, the students wi