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| Offered by: 
Department of Applied Electronics
(IAE) | 
| No credit points with: D4441 | 
| Prerequisite: 92062 | 
| Recommended semester: 
5th semester | 
| Scope and form: Class lectures and project work. | 
| Examination: 
Evaluation of report(s) 
(13 point scale
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| Contact person:  | 
Thorkild Larsen, IAE, Building 451, Tel. +45 4525 5283 | 
 
 
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Aim:  To give the students such knowledge about International Standards in  Datacommunication that he/she will be able to design interfaces  (hardware and software) between different layers in communication  equipment. 
  To give the students such knowledge about LANs (local area networks) that  they will be able to choose the right LAN for a given application  knowing the strong and weak sides of different LANS.  | 
Contents:  Classical communication protocols in connection oriented and connectionless oriented systems. 
  The ISO OSI model for communication and the standards for  the interfaces between the different layers in the model. 
 The course also covers different network topologies, routing  problems etc. Finally we go through the concepts of different  LANs emphasizing each types special properties. |