Networking essentials
Keynotes of the first networking essentials session held in Sakia on Monday the 2nd of Aug 2004
- Information sharing
- Hardware and software sharing
- Centralized administration and support
Roles of computers in a network
- Client
- Server
- WAN
- LAN
- Application (layer 7)
- Presentation (layer 6)]
- Session (layer 5)
- Transport (layer 4)
- Network (layer 3)
- Data-link (layer 2)
- Physical (layer 1)
- Types of cables
- Coaxial
- Fiber optic
- Twisted pair (UTP,STP,FTP)
- Topologies
- Bus
- Star
- Ring
- Mesh
- Hybrid
- Access method
- Token passing
- FDDI
- CSMA/CD Carrier sense multiple access/Collision detection
Comments
Layers Protocols