This course covers the key concepts of telecommunications and networking. It provides a solid introduction to networking fundamentals including key acronyms, protocols, and components that are essential to understanding how networks operate today. It covers the basic concepts of telecommunications such as analog/digital communications, basic encoding, bandwidth and capacity and serves as a solid foundation for in-depth study of networking. It identifies the types of communications networks that have evolved based on the various technological configurations and the internetworking process behind data communications.