The Network Engineering option offers advanced education in design, implementation, and analysis of modern communication networks. Courses cover the infrastructure of network-centric military communication systems to include wireless, mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks, high-speed networks, large-scale network deployment, intrusion prevention systems and architectures for multimedia distribution. Hands-on experimentation and implementation is provided using state-of-the-art networking equipment consisting of optical switches, routers, wireless access points, advanced sensor motes, traffic generators, channel simulators, protocol analyzers, high-resolution vector spectrum analyzers, wireless signal generators, multimedia encoder/decoder transmission systems, and simulation software.