The objective of this course is to gain an in-depth understanding of the technology for the design of wired and wireless local area networks (LANs) and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and the methods for implementing LAN and MAN-based enterprise internetworks. Topics covered include media, topology, media access control (MAC), data link and physical layer protocols and internetworking. The IEEE 802 standards are used as the basis for understanding LAN and MAN technology. The architecture of the IEEE 802 LAN and MAN standards is analyzed and its relationship to the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model is discussed. An in-depth analysis is presented of the basic IEEE wired LAN standards: the IEEE 802.2 logical link control protocol and the MAC protocols for the Ethernet (802.3), token bus (802.4) and token ring (802.5) networks. The construction of LAN-based enterprise internetworks is examined through a detailed analysis of bridging, routing and switching techniques. Techniques for providing QoS in LANs will be discussed in the context of VLANs and frame priority. An analysis of the MAC protocols for high speed wired LANs is presented including the 802.12 100VG AnyLAN standard and the 802.3u Fast Ethernet and 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet standards. High speed wired MANs are examined including the 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet and the 802.3ba 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet standards and the ring-based IEEE 802.6 DQDB and 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) standards. The Wireless 802.11 (WiFi) LAN standard and the IEEE 802.15.1 Bluetooth and the IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee PAN standards are discussed. Finally, wireless MANs will be presented including the 802.16 WirelessMAN (WiMAX) and the 802.16e Mobile WiMAX standards.