network virtual field trip Types of networks connections
Essentials & Hardware
Items discussed so far:
Vocabulary in videos:
- PAN - Personal Area Network (10 meters)
- LAN - Local Area Network (up to 300 meters depending upon the equipment)
- MAN - Metropolitan Area Network (think city or large campus)
- WAN - Wide Area Network (city to city traffic)
- VPN - Virtual Private Network (multiple location company, government or military private network)
Vocabulary in videos:
- CPU - Central Processing Unit
- Server
- Device - Personal computer hardware
- Connection - The manner two terminals are connected
- Hub - (see video Internetworking Devices - 1:38)
- Bus
- 802.3 Ethernet – (see video Computer Network Types – :32)
- 802.11 Wireless – (see video Computer Network Types – :45)
- Ethernet
- CSMA/CD – Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (infared) – (see video Computer Network Types – :49)
- Cable Standards – (see video Computer Network Types – :53)
- RJ-45 connector looks like a big phone plug (most common network connector) – (see video Computer Network Types 1:00)
- F-Type Connector used on coax cable – (see video Computer Network Types – 1:03)
- Firewire – (see video Computer Network Types – 1:12)
- Cable categories 3-6 – (see video Computer Network Types – 1:26)
- UTP Cable – (see video Computer Network Types – 1:30)
- Coaxial Cable – (see video Computer Network Types – 1:38)
- Fiber Optic – (see video Computer Network Types – 1:45)
- Modem (see video Computer Network Types – 2:29)
- Bridge (see video Computer Network Types – 2:00) communicates between two routers
- Switch (see video Computer Network Types – 1:50) - (see video Internetworking Devices - 3:42)
- Router (see video Computer Network Types – 2:04) - (see video Internetworking Devices - 6:10)
- Gateway (see video Computer Network Types – 2:18)
- NICs – Network Interface Cards (see video Computer Network Types – 2:23)
- Infared (see video Computer Network Types – 2:35)
- Internet Service Provider Networks
- SMTP (see video Computer Network Types – 4:05)
- HTTP (see video Computer Network Types – 4:13)
- DNS – Domain Name Service (see video Computer Network Types – 4:58)
- AFP – Appletalk File Protocol (see video Computer Network Types – 5:08)
- Zeroconf – Zero Configuration (see video Computer Network Types – 5:11)
- DSL – Digital Subscriber Line (see video Computer Network Types – 5:28)
- IPSec – Internet Protocol Security (see video Computer Network Types – 6:00)
- WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy (see video Computer Network Types – 6:10)
- Firewall - (see video Computer Network Types – 6:26
- Proxy Server - (see video Computer Network Types – 6:36)
- Intranet - (see video Computer Network Types – 6:46)
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