NETWORKS AND SECURITY

This specialty trains senior technicians capable to :

• Identify the key issues for the realisation of the LAN/WAN/MAN network architectures and the hybridized existing form in the business environment and enterprise ;
• Link different network performance concepts and traffic issues for Quality of Service (QoS) in broadband communication as well as the network economies of the enterprise ;
• Motivate the need for network security practices in organizational units ;
• Build foundations to assess contemporary security policies and security mechanisms within organizations and illustrate the balance of the managerial and technical aspects of network security.

• General skills
  • Self-employed, work together as a team ;
  • Analyze, synthesize a professional document (French, English) ;
  • Oral and written business communication (French, English);
  • Participate in /conduct an approach to the management of a project ;
  • Know and exploit professional and institutional networks in the computer sectors.
• Specifics Skills
  • Master telecommunications equipment ;
  • Configure inverters, battery, solar panels and cables ;
  • Master the technics of emission, transmission and reception of signals, images and sounds ;
  • Install and configure hardware and software of networks and telecommunications systems ;
  • Apply the quality control ;
  • Apply exploitation procedures ;
  • Optimize the operation of a network and the common protocols used ;
  • Implement and administer Networks ;
  • Participate to the development of specifications of a network topology or installation of a telecommunications system, manage and control the evolution of such installation in choosing the equipment and the appropriate software ;
  • Coordinate the rehabilitation of an installation after the incidents such as fire.

• Servicing companies and manufacturing networks equipment ;
• Telecommunication operators and Internet service providers ;
• Controller of the information System in enterprise ;
• Telephone installer ;
• Servicing companies and computer engineering.

For a period of two years, a set of theoretical and practical courses is administered to students with a view to obtaining a Higher National Diploma (HND) sanctioned by MINESUP.

Direct registration on file study :

• A hand written application adressed to the Director of SOUTH POLYTECH ;
• A complete registration form available on campus ;
• A photocopy of birth certificate ;
• A photocopy of A/L certificate ;
• Registration fees : 35,000 FCFA ;
• File study fees : free of charge ;
• Annual medical coverage : 5000 F CFA.

• Lectures ;
• Practical work and personal work ;
• Immersion courses in the professions accompanied by a teaching body and company executives.

• Continuous monitoring for each lecture ;
• An exam session (oral or written) at the end of each semester organised according to the subjects registered for the semester ;
• Writing of an internship report defended in front of a jury at the end of the cycle ;
• National HND exam.