networking

networking

1. topologies

   • ring
   • bus
   • star
   • mesh

2. area networks

   • lan
     • local area network
   • wan
     • wide area network
   • han
     • Home Area Network
   • pan
     • Personal Area Network
   • can
     • Campus Area Network
   • man
     • Metropolitan Area Network
   • san
     • Storage Area Network
     • System-Area Network
   • WLAN
     • wireless local area network
   • VPN
     • virtual private network
   • EPN
     • enterprise private network
   • POLAN
     • Passive Optical Local Area Network
   • van
     • Value-added network
   • nanonetwork
   • ban
     • body area network
   • Near-me area network

3. protocols

   • http
     • Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
     • used for requesting an HTML file from a webserver
   • https
     • Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure.
     • encrypts the data before sending it.
       • so that it can’t be intercepted along the way.
   • POP3
     • Post Office Protocol 3
     • is a protocol for downloading email from a mail server.
   • SMTP
     • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
     • the protocol for uploading email to a mail server.
   • FTP
     • File Transfer Protocol
     • a protocol for transferring files between two computers
     • it's used for uploading their HTML files to their webservers

4. layers

Images and files in the map