Aim
The aim of the course is to give basic knowledge about the presently available
data telecommunications systems and an overview over systems under development.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to describe carrier systems with different modulation methods and
  how these are utilized within data and telcommunications

• be able to describe the functions in analogue and digital radio and television
  broadcasting systems

• be able to describe the structure of mobile telephone systems

• be able to describe different routing protocols and their properties.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to configure data and telecommunications systems at block level
  from given specifications

• be able to configure routing in a computer network

• be able to document and orally present a solution to a given datacommunications
  or telecommunications problem

• be able to utilize available information from component and system suppliers
  needed for the configuration of a system from given specifications.

Contents

• Analogue and digital modulation

• Analogue radio and TV

• Digital radio and TV

• Telphone circuits and mobile telephony

• Protocols

• Multiplexing

• Circuit and packet switching techniques

• DSL, cable TV networks and SONET

• Point-to-point access

• Mobile telephone networks and satellite networks

• Virtual circuit switching networks

• Routing

Literature
Forouzan, B: Data Communications And Networking. Mcgraw-Hill Education Europe, UK 2007. ISBN: 007-125442-0.
Röjne, Mats: Digital TV via mark,satellit och kabel. Studentlitteratur, Andra upplagan 2006. ISBN 91-44-00092-8.