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Data Communications

This graduate-level course introduces students to concepts, technologies, and principles underlying business data communication networks. There is also an undergraduate version of this course.

Student comments

I would highly recommend Prof Farkas to any Info student. Extremely knowledgeable and great at teaching. Any question he doesn't know he will research and come back with an answer.

He broke it down where it was easy to understand and easy to learn.

Pretty fair and firm about what's needed to be successful in this course. I appreciate that.

Professor Farkas challenged me to learn in the course. The way he conducts class is a little different from other instructors but it was very effective in helping me learn the material. The group assignments (presenting in front of class) really pr

I enjoyed the variety in his teaching. Although data communications in itself can be detailed and dry, he did an awesome job applying it to the real world and making it relevant to us.

Graduate

Spring 2014 Evaluations

Fall 2015 Evaluations

Undergraduate

Summer 2016 Evaluations

Summer 2015 Evaluations

Course Material

Sample Graduate Syllabus

Summer 2012 Evaluations

Class Presentations

Graduate Course

01 - Introduction

02 - Physical Layer

03 - Data Link Layer

04 - Network Layer

05 - Subnetting

06 - Networking

07 - Transport Layer

08 - Application Layer

09 - HTTP, DNS, and NAT

10 - Network Management

11 - Wireless and WAN

12 - Security