William S. Spears School of Business

TCOM 3203
Telecommunications Industry Foundations.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Emerging trends in the telecommunications
industry. Past events, regulatory and legal implications, strategic direction of organizations with respect to telecommunications.

TCOM 3223
Network Design Principles.
Prerequisite: MSIS 3223. Management science principles applied to telecommunicationsnetwork design. Specific topics will include mathematical programming, network models, simulation, and queueing theory.

TCOM 5012*
Telecommunications Laboratory.
Prerequisite: ECEN 5553, TCOM 5123 or co-requisite. Familiarization with the hardware used to move voice, data and video traffic. Data network experiments include set up and operation of a small LAN, interconnection of these LANs via bridges or routers, and attachment of voice and video modules to the LANs. Telephone network experiments include installation of small PBXs and interconnection
of them to the campus phone system, and interconnection of the lab PBXs with crosspoint switches and fiber. Video experiments include interconnection and operation of a small two-camera studio, and digitizing and transferring the video over the laboratory telephone system. Practical operating aspects and standards of distance transmission devices, switching equipment media for transmitting data, voice and video signals. Handling information problems within selected environments.

TCOM 5113*
Industry Overview and Telecommunications Applications.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of program director. Overview of telecommunications industry, technology, regulatory environment, and current topics in telephone services (wireless and wireline), business data services, CATV, and Internet services and providers (including JAVA and HTML). Managerial and strategic aspects of telecommunications technologies. Guest speakers from the telecommunications industry.

TCOM 5123*
The Upper Layers of Telecommunications Systems.
Applied technical coverage of selected topics from the upper layers of the OSI model. Network and Transport layers using, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, as well as security issues and other multi-layer protocol suites. Other topics include flow control, RSVP, encryption, compression, and LAN/WAN applications.

TCOM 5143*
Telecommunications Systems Analysis, Planning and Design I.
Prerequisites: ECEN 5553 and consent of program director. The fundamentals behind systems analysis and design of telecommunication systems from a managerial perspective. Financial analysis of telecommunication projects, fundamentals of mathematical modeling and queuing theory, and other management tools that are key to the design and analysis of telecommunication networks.

TCOM 5153*
International Telecommunications Management.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of program director. Investigation
of the institutions that affect the use of telecommunications. The various parts of the federal government involved, such as the Department of Commerce, the FCC and the Department of State. The role of international institutions, including the ITU, UNESCO, and the various satellite organizations such as INTELSAT.

TCOM 5163*
Telecommunications Practicum. Lab 3.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of program director. Application of knowledge and skills developed in core courses in an organizational environment to solve telecommunications management problems. Integration of concepts and adaptation of theory to fit organizational reality.

TCOM 5173*
Global Telecommunications Regulation.
Historical review of the classical "PTT (Post, Telephone and Telegraph) Model", and the development of new competitive environments. Overview of international telecommunications networks and how they are regulated nationally and internationally. Review of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the telecommunications commitments made by members. Emphasis on the European Union as the largest single telecommunications market, along with analyses of regional emerging markets. Review of challenges for the future for both regulatory agencies and telecommunications operators and providers.

TCOM 5193*
Capstone: Telecommunications Systems Analysis and Design.
Prerequisites: 5113, 5123, ECEN 5553, 23 hours of relevant graduate coursework, and consent of program director. Application of knowledge gained throughout the curriculum to basic systems analysis tools and techniques to perform an analyses and designs in a telecommunications context. Knowledge of technology, management, international aspects, and regulatory environment to provide an overall view of impact that a given system may have on an organization. System documentation through use of classical and structured tools and techniques for describing flows, data flows, data structures, file designs, input and output designs, and program specifications may be used.

TCOM 5213*
Telecommunications Systems Analysis, Planning and Design II.
Prerequisites: 5143, ECEN 5553, and consent of program director. The fundamentals behind systems analysis and design of telecommunication systems from an engineering perspective. Advanced mathematical modeling
and queuing theory, graph theory, network design algorithms and other tools that are key to the design and analysis of telecommunication networks. An in-depth, technical and quantitative follow-up to TCOM 5143.

TCOM 5223*
Information Assurance Management.
A broad investigation of the elements of information assurance and security with an emphasis on the management impact to corporations and businesses engaged in information services and electronic commerce. Students should come away from the course with the ability to advise management on the risks and mitigation for all types of threats to information and privacy.

TCOM 5233*
Applied Information Systems Security.
Prerequisite 5123. An investigation into the various technical aspects of attacking, and of guarding against attacks and failures in various types of information systems. Course content may vary but includes computer, network, and data protection
technologies (e.g., firewalls, packet filters, proxy servers, user authentication and validation techniques, encryption, backup methodologies, system and component redundancies, etc.). Various threats and attack methods examined.

TCOM 5310*
UNIX Administration Laboratory. 1-3 credits, maximum 3. Lab.
Prerequisites: must have taken or currently enrolled in 5223 or 5233 and have consent of program director. Common administration level tasks associated with managing systems that run Unix and Unix derivatives. Utilities and resources commonly deployed in support of network infrastructure.

TCOM 5320*
Infrastructure Security Lab. 1-3 credits, maximum 3. Lab.
Prerequisites: must have taken or currently enrolled in 5223 or 5233 and have consent of program director. Hands-on experience with various
technical aspects of managing the perimeter of a connected network. Network hardware, such as routers, switches and firewalls. Course content variable, but includes computer, network and data protection technologies.

TCOM 5330*
UNIX Security Lab. 1-3 credits, maximum 3. Lab.
Prerequisites: must have taken or currently enrolled in 5223 or 5233 and have consent of program director. Hands-on experience with various technical aspects of managing security, protecting information technology assets, and both attacking and guarding against attacks and failures in UNIX and Linux systems. Course content variable, but includes computer, network, and data protecting technologies.

TCOM 5340*
Security Lab. 1-3 credits, maximum 3. Lab.
Prerequisites: must have taken or currently enrolled in 5223 or 5233 and have consent of program director. Hands-on experience with various technical aspects of managing security, protecting information technology assets, attacking and of guarding against attacks and failures in information systems. Course content variable but includes computer, network, and data protection technologies (e.g. firewalls, packet filters, proxy severs, user authentication and validation techniques, data encryption, establishing virtual private networks, creating and using digital certificates for authentication, using encrypted email technologies). Several
threats and attack methods explored (e.g. sniffers, password crackers, network scanners, etc.).

TCOM 5343*
Information Technology Forensics.
Prerequisites: 5123, consent of department head.
Review of systems for vulnerabilities and analysis of systems that have been breached. This course will cover the many related issues and have a heavy hands-on component.

TCOM 5350*
Advanced Telecommunications Management
Lab. 2-3 credits, maximum 3. Lab 2-3. Prerequisites: 5012 and consent of program director. Advanced state-of-the-art topics in voice, data and video. Hands-on network experiments beyond coverage in the required TCOM 5012 lab.

TCOM 5353*
Information Technology Risk Analysis, Planning and Mitigation.
Prerequisite: consent of department head. Examination of factors of risk analysis in information technology and how management can plan to achieve an acceptable level of risk in the face of corporation desiring to further open up their networks to partners, customers and mobile workers.

TCOM 5360*
Wireless Communications Laboratory. 1-3 credits, maximum 3. Lab.
Prerequisites: ECEN 4523, ECEN 5553 and consent of program director. Conducting wireless-modem and wireless-networking experimentsand analyzing the problems that result in improved designs for wireless systems and networking performance.

TCOM 5370*
Windows Security Lab. 1-3 credits, maximum3. Lab.
Prerequisites: must have taken or currently enrolled in 5223 or 5233 and have consent of program director. Hands-on experience with various technicalaspects of managing security, protectinginformation assets, and both attacking and guarding against attacks and failures in Windows systems. Course content variable,but includes computer, network, and data protection technologies.

TCOM 5380*
System Technologies for Information Assurance.
1-3 credits, maximum 3. Lab 1-3. Prerequisites: 5223, consent of director. The basic parts of an operating system, including memory handling, processing and I/O functions. Areas of the OS most often exploited in information assurance breaches, as well as those that serve as the building blocks for upper-layer attacks. OS structures, process management, memory management, storage management,protection and security, distributed systems, and special purpose systems. For non-computer science majors, and may not be taken for credit if another course in operating systems has already been completed.

TCOM 5410*
Advanced Topics in Telecommunications Management. 3 credits, maximum 3.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of program director. Advanced topics in the interdisciplinary field of telecommunicationsmanagement, such as legal and regulatory issues, electronic commerce, internet and intranet development.

TCOM 5990*
Directed Studies in Telecommunications Management. 1-6 credits, maximum 6.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consentof program director. Special advanced topics, projects and independent study in telecommunications management.

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