ET 410 - Business Telecommunications

Credits: 3

Description
This course provides students with an introduction and basic overview of the field of Business Telecommunications, as well as an introduction to current management and strategic issues. Students will have a working knowledge of many of the telecommunications components and associated terminology as they apply to business in this age of electronic communication.

Student Learning Outcomes

Determine how the use of networks may increase an organization’s responsiveness to opportunities and threats from the business environment.
Compare the ways a manager can find out about new technologies and services and keep up to date with changing network services.
Critique current and future business applications as well as key issues in the commercial development of the Internet.
Compare and analyze the key WAN topologies and relate particular topologies to specific performance and operational requirements.
Evaluate and analyze cost factors associated with local area networks.
Determine networking opportunities using function and process diagrams and associated matrices.
Predict improvements in resource usage resulting from the use of telecommunications-based systems.
Critique the use of telecommunications systems to carry out management tasks involved in planning, organizing, and controlling a business unit.

Prerequisite: ET 108B