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
4
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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