Fast Packet Technologies
Overview/Description
To overview technologies based on Frame Relay and cell relay and access their application in networks
Target Audience
Managerial and operational staff
Prerequisites
Some knowledge of wide area networking as outlined in the course Packet Switching WANs
Expected Duration
5 Hours
Objectives:
Fast Packet Technologies
To describe and outline the operation of metropolitan area networks (MANs)
To outline the SONET and SDH standards, pointing out the benefits they can offer users
To introduce the major fast packet switching technologies and outline some reasons why they came to be developed
To describe the frame relay networking technology
To explain the principle of cell relay and to describe and outline two major cell relay implementations
Course Number: WFASTP