1.4 wired and wireless networking

WAN
1. Wide Area Network
2. Bigger geographical area
3. Multiple sites
4. The biggest would be a global collection of Networks (the Internet
Packet
1. Holds 4 bits of information
2. It has a life spam
3. Contains a sequence number
4. Knows the sender and the recipients IP number
LAN
1. It has less sites than WAN
2. Connects the local devices it can connect to
3. Has a small Geographical area
Router
1. a interconnection device used on networks to connect two or more devices
2. the router examines the packets IP address
3. the swich
Switch
1. A switch is a Interconnection that connects two or more devices
Transmission Media
1. Ethernet cat 5E an cat6
2. Know as twisted pair
3. A Networking standard
Client server
1. they all request services from the server
peer to peer
1. all computers have equal status
2. you pay for someone to manage the server
3. each device can act as a client server
4. all devices can request and provide network services
5. software info has local installation

Resource summary

	Created by Sam Power about 7 years ago