The high speed data networks course focuses on the advances in LAN, MAN, and ATM. Topics include high speed data networks models, approaches to design and management of networks, high speed transmission networks and switching technologies, FDDI, DQDB, SMDS, Frame Relay, ATM networks, and SONET, congestion control and traffic management, performance modeling, queuing theory, routing algorithms, data compression, and applications demanding high-speed communication, multicasting for teleconferencing, and mobile computing.