BTEC National Diploma in IT - Communications Technology Unit

This Unit of the BTEC National in IT, educates students with skills and knowledge needed to progress further in network & data communications. This Unit is theory based, and contains a module where students are given a real life example problem in a business; this is where students can provide a detailed solution, with reasoning to the problem. The problem being a situation where a business is in need of a reliable, fast and affordable network.

This Unit covers the following:

Different types of networks (LAN, WAN etc)
Network topologies
Network hardware
Network software
Protocols
Packets
Communication media
Network interconnection devices
History of the Internet
Frequencies

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