Welcome Back!!
What are we going to cover tonight?
- Types of Networks
- Networking Theorey
- Networking Models
- Packet-Tracer Demo
Let’s start small
PAN
Think of Bluetooth systems
Radio Frequency Identification
Near Field Communication
Now onto the whole house
You will likely be familiar with these LAN and WLANs.
So what’s a VLAN?
We’ll skip CANs
Straight to MANs
Who here has played WatchDogs?
Lancaster has built up the Future Cities Institute to research precisely this
Back to CANs and WANs
Time to complain about the Uni System…
- ResNet
- Eduroam
- JANET
What about WWAN?
Whats a DSL?
Networking Theorey
Who’s heard of the following phrases:
- On-Prem
- Hybrid
- Cloud
When should each of these be used?
Cloud
Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud
Just for Networking?
How to Hybrid Successfully
Buses, Stars, Rings and Mesh
Networking Models and why they are kinda pointless
Bus
Why Though?
Star
The most common type by default
Mesh
For when some redundancy is not enough redundancy
Ring
Like a Bus but slightly better
Hybrids
Why nearly every network is a Hybrid Model
- Manageable
- Provides enough redundancy
- Better security
How have these networks been designed?
I’m going to give you a demo of Cisco Packet Tracer.
Here we are going to set up a star network consisting of one router, one switch and two PCs.
Cisco equipment is the gold standard of networking.
Speaking of Cisco
Tonight we have covered some areas of the CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate qualification.
Specifically we have looked at:
- 1.1 - The role and function of network components
- 1.2 - Characteristics of network topology architecture
And we started to touch on:
- 2.1 Configure and verify VLANs
- 6.1 How automation impacts network management
Previously
We have already covered areas like:
- 1.3 Comparing cabling types
- 1.5 Compare TCP and UDP
- 1.7 The need for private IPv4 addressing