Emerging Broadband Technologies

Catalog description

This course covers topics of increasing importance in the area of broadband technologies. Following a review of TCP/IP protocols, the course examines the basics of network tunneling and security as applied to Virtual Private Networks (VPN). The latest tunneling technologies such as point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP) and layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) are discussed. Security concepts such as threats and attacks, intrusion detection, firewalls, cryptography, authentication, and security key management are covered. The IPSec protocols and Quality of Service (QoS) concepts are also covered.