PNIE - PANDUIT NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE ESSENTIALS

Sponsored by Panduit Corporation, gives Cisco Networking Academies the opportunity to provide a curriculum on the physical aspects of voice and data network cabling and installation. This 70-hour, hands-on, lab-oriented course stresses documentation, design and installation issues, laboratory safety and on-the-job safety, as well as working effectively in group environments.

Students will become familiar with cabling issues related to data and voice connections, media and transmissions practices, and cabling customer support. This course provides an overview of cabling and networking industrystandards as well as emerging cabling technologies.

Panduit Network Infrastructure Essentials Competencies

Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive a Certificate of Completion for the Panduit Network Infrastructure Essentials. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) have reviewed this course and have allowed us to include their endorsement stamp on this certificate.

Acquired competencies include an understanding of:

• Cabling industry and marketplace as well as US and international standards and worldwide standards organizations.
• Basic networking concepts and topologies, the OSI model and the main functions of each model layer.
• Signal transmission, basics of electrical and optical transmission theory, basic wireless systems theory, and the cause and effects of signal degradation.
• Schematics of copper cabling in the form of twisted-pair and shielded twisted-pair, as well as the respective standards and coaxial cable schematics.
• Fiber optics using cabling, different modes of fiber optics and implications of dispersion and attenuation.
• Essential lab safety principles and local, national and international safety code of conduct.
• Cabling installation as well as rough-in, trim-out and finish phases.

Panduit Network Infrastructure Essentials helps to prepare students for the BICSI Registered Installer, Level 1 exam.