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Panduit Network Infrastructure Essentials (PNIE)

This course is designed for students interested in the physical aspects of voice and data network cabling and installation. The course focuses on cabling issues related to data and voice connections and provides an understanding of the industry including worldwide standards, types of media and cabling, physical and logical networks, as well as signal transmission.

Students will develop skills in cable termination with both jacks and punch-blocks, reading network design documentation, pulling and mounting cable, cable management, cable labeling, setting up telecommunications rooms, and patch panel installation and termination, as well as basic cable testing and troubleshooting, and basic cabling calculations.

This hands-on, lab-oriented course stresses documentation, design, and installation issues, as well as laboratory safety, on-the-job safety, and working effectively with others. 

Industry Related Jobs

The Panduit Network Infrastructure Essentials (PNIE) course will provide a good start in a career path leading to becoming a network technician, technical support specialist, maintenance technician, testing engineer, information systems planner, and systems integrator. This course will also assist in getting students ready to enter an electrical engineering degree program.

Course Description

Acquired competencies include an understanding of:

• Cabling industry and marketplace as well as U.S. 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 codes of conduct
• Cabling installation processes as well as rough-in, trim-out, and finish phases
• Physical layer management

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Course Delivery

This course has been designed as a 70-hour curriculum and is delivered on a part-time basis 15 hours per week, with 2 - 2.5 full classroom and lab based days per week, over 12-14 weeks.

The programme is delivered at ECTA .

Qualification

PNIE can be undertaken as a stand-alone course or be seen as a platform that could take you through to becoming a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA ) and on to Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).