Networking in the Business Environment
Labs and Assignments

Weekly Homework Assignments - 10 pts each

(Late assignments will not be accepted. Homework must be submitted electronically to summers_wayne@ColumbusState.edu by 5 p.m. Friday each week.)

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Week 7 Week 8 Week 9
Week 10 Week 11 Week 12
Week 13 Week 14 Week 15

Hands-on Lab Assignments - 20 pts each

(Late assignments will not be accepted. Labs must be completed by the following Thursday at noon. Answers to any questions must be e-mailed to summers_wayne@ColumbusState.edu by noon on Thursday also.)

Lab 1 Lab 2 Lab 3
Lab 4 Lab 5 Lab 6

Research project and presentation - 100 pts.

One of the major requirements for this course is a project on some aspect of computer networks. The project may be either a practical or a term paper. Listed below are some of the topics for the project. If you are taking this course for graduate credit, you will need to either do an additonal part to your project or do a second project. For the practical projects, you will be expected to give a brief presentation to the class on your project. and/or develop an HTML document. If you choose a term paper to write, you will need to turn in a copy to me for publication on the Internet and also make a brief presentation to the class. Some of the larger projects may be done in small groups, but I expect each participant to do a significant amount of the work. Once you have selected "your" topic, you are responsible for researching the topic through books, periodicals and/or the Internet. Your selected topic needs to be submitted to the instructor no later than September 12, 1997, so that the presentations can be scheduled.
I will be available for help with this projects.

You are expected to submit an HTML document (50 pts) suitable for publishing on the Internet as well as presenting an oral report (50 pts) to the class and instructor. Both the HTML document and the oral report are expected to be professional in their presentation. Each oral presentation should be approximately fifteen minutes in length.

Possible Projects include:

Network Term Paper Topics

The paper should be a significant research of an important topic in computer networks. It should be 10-20 pages and involve research from the Internet as well as from books and periodicals.

  1. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) - Rachel Vigil (Nov. 25)
  2. Frame Relay System - This is the system that will soon be installed in Las Vegas and will allow many of the schools in the area to access the Internet via NMHU. - Natalie Quintana (Nov. 4)
  3. Electronic Data Interchage (EDI) - this is an important protocol for the trasmission of data in the business world.
  4. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - network protocol that allows fast multimedia data transfer - Lisa Valdez (Nov. 20)
  5. High Speed Ethernet
  6. Enterprise Computing - Arline Quintana (Nov. 25)
  7. Online Banking - Keith Tucker (Nov. 6)
  8. Other approved topics.
REMINDER: Graduate Students are required to do an additional project!


Your project will be graded based on the following criteria: