OPR 474: Data Communications 3 credits The increasing use of data processing equipment, increasing use of distributed systems, increasing diversity of networking options, and emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web have made a solid understanding of fundamentals of communications essential to business and information management. This understanding includes: the underlying technology of information communications facilities, networking systems, and communication software; the architecture of information communication (the way in which hardware, software, and services can be organized to provide computer and terminal interconnection) and application of information communication in today's business.