Network Types ( Comptia Objective 2.7) Flashcards

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What is a LAN?

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  • Local Area Network
  • A building or group of buildings which have high speed connectivity which are connected together e.g at an office or work environment or at home
  • Connection can be over Ethernet or 802.11 Wireless
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What is a WAN?

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  • Wide Area Network
    • Spanning the globe( Aka the Internet connection)
  • Generally connects multiple LANs across a distance and generally much slower than a LAN
  • Many different WAN technologies including point to point serial, MPLS etc includes terrestrial and non terrestrial
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What is a PAN?

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Personal Area Network
- Your own private network such as Bluetooth, IR or NFCCX
E.G - automobile audio output which integrates phone
Mobile phone wireless headset uses bluetooth
- Or health monitoring equiptment

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What is a MAN?

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Metropolitan Area Network

  • a network in your city
  • Larger than a LAN, often smaller than a WAN
  • Historically MAN-specific topologies, Everyone’s moving to Metro Ethernet
  • usually run by a local government and owned by them
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What ia WMN

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Wireless Mesh Network

  • Commonly used in the phone where all devices connect together( similar to peer to peer)
  • a mesh cloud e.g The Internet Of Things( Zigbee)
  • Self form and connect together forming a network
  • Self heal reacts automatically to changes.
  • Many different technologies including 802.11, Zigbee, Z wave etc
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How are cable internet connections made?

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  • Connection is made via an RG-6 cable( Coaxial) cable being run into the office or home and connected to the modem/ SOHO router by way of a screw on F-connector.
  • The Cable modem is equipped with an RJ45 connector for patching to the router or to individuals computers on the network
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