...Network Design Student Name Course 2 July 2014 Professor Identify hardware and software needed to secure your choice of networks against all electronic threats. A network that helps a workstation to connect with each other is called a Networking hardware. If a company uses both routers and firewall, the company is assured protection of both wireless and cabled networks that are used in the company. Network hardware is suitable in any organization in the keeping of the organizations network safe. In the software part I will choose to use McAfee Anti-virus security software. This software in conjunction with firewall is a sure way of protecting a company. Routers when used along with hardware are the best security hardware needed if the company needs to increase the security of their network to a level where none of the intruders can be able to access it (Radu, 2002). The function of the firewall in an organization is to ensure that all unwanted activities are blocked including hackers that can retrieve important and delicate information of the company. Hacking will be a very dangerous exercise where criminal can access the important information that a company has and use this information in blackmailing the company and its customers. Networking software’s also plays a major role in securing an organizations network security. The software has the capabilities of detecting viruses that may attack an organization and make an organization loose its critical...
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...3.1.2 Types of Computer Networks Computer networks are classified based on the geographical length. A network can be as small as the distance between a mobile phone and its Bluetooth headphone. Also it can be as large as the internet itself. It covers the whole geographical world. Types of Networks • LAN • WAN • MAN (i) LAN (Local Area Network) A local area network is a self-contained network. It lengths a small area, such as a single building, floor, or a room. In LAN, all the nodes and segments are connected directly with short range wireless technology or cables. Each computer in a LAN has its own CPU. It executes the programs. It also access the data and devices anywhere on the LAN. Through LAN many users can share expensive devices, such as laser printers, as well as data. The LAN is used by the users to communicate with each other. They communicate through emails or by engaging in chat sessions....
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...TYPES OF COMPUTER NETWORKS Maninder Kaur professormaninder@gmail.com What is Network? • A network consists of two or more computers that are linked in order to share resources (such as printers and CDs), exchange files, or allow electronic communications. • The computers on a network may be linked through cables, telephone lines, radio waves, satellites, or infrared light beams. Different Types of Networks • Depending upon the geographical area covered by a network, it is classified as: – Local Area Network (LAN) – Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) – Wide Area Network (WAN) – Personal Area Network (PAN) Local Area Network (LAN) • A LAN is a network that is used for communicating among computer devices, usually within an office building or home. • LAN’s enable the sharing of resources such as files or hardware devices that may be needed by multiple users • • Is limited in size, typically spanning a few hundred meters, and no more than a mile • Is fast, with speeds from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps • Requires little wiring, typically a single cable connecting to each device • Has lower cost compared to MAN’s or WAN’s Local Area Network (LAN) • LAN’s can be either wired or wireless. Twisted pair, coax or fibre optic cable can be used in wired LAN’s. • Every LAN uses a protocol – a set of rules that governs how packets are configured and transmitted. • Nodes in a LAN are linked together with a certain topology. These topologies include: – Bus – Ring – Star • LANs are capable of...
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...and a link to our environment that is almost magical. Telecommunications and computer networking have vastly increased our options on how and what we communicate, they have physically constrained us by leashing us with a physical wire to the network. But wireless communications brings us back to a form of communications that is inherently natural to us. There are three main types of networks that will be discussed on this paper, namely Local Area Network (LAN), Control Area Network (CAN), and Wide Area Network (WAN) (Rysavy, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to know what each of these networks are, how they work, and how each of them can be implemented. LAN Network: This is a data communications network connecting terminals, computers and printers within a building or other geographical limited areas. These devices could be connected through wired cables or wireless links. Ethernet, Token Ring and Wireless LAN using IEEE 802.11 are examples of standard LAN technologies. Local Area Network could be interconnected using Wide Area Network (WAN) or Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) technologies. The common WAN technologies include TCP/IP, ATM, and Frame Relay. LANs are traditionally used to connect a group of people who are in the same local area. However, the working group are becoming more geographically distributed in today's working environment, making virtual LAN. VLAN technologies are defined for people in different places to share the same networking resource (Edraw visualization...
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...TYPES OF COMPUTER NETWORKS Maninder Kaur professormaninder@gmail.com What is Network? • A network consists of two or more computers that are linked in order to share resources (such as printers and CDs), exchange files, or allow electronic communications. • The computers on a network may be linked through cables, telephone lines, radio waves, satellites, or infrared light beams. Different Types of Networks • Depending upon the geographical area covered by a network, it is classified as: – Local Area Network (LAN) – Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) – Wide Area Network (WAN) – Personal Area Network (PAN) Local Area Network (LAN) • A LAN is a network that is used for communicating among computer devices, usually within an office building or home. • LAN’s enable the sharing of resources such as files or hardware devices that may be needed by multiple users • • Is limited in size, typically spanning a few hundred meters, and no more than a mile • Is fast, with speeds from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps • Requires little wiring, typically a single cable connecting to each device • Has lower cost compared to MAN’s or WAN’s Local Area Network (LAN) • LAN’s can be either wired or wireless. Twisted pair, coax or fibre optic cable can be used in wired LAN’s. • Every LAN uses a protocol – a set of rules that governs how packets are configured and transmitted. • Nodes in a LAN are linked together with a certain topology. These topologies include: – Bus – Ring – Star ...
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...http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) Personal Computers on the Internet A personal computer can be connected to LAN (Local Area Network) by using a router. This type of network is a private network that links computers at a single location, such as at a home or office building. A computer with the LAN connection is allowed to different network components like files, software and devices like printers and fax machines with in the private area. A computer can be connected to a router using Ethernet cable, or a router can communicate wirelessly using radio waves. The Internet is wider than the LAN, basically it is network of networks, and it connects the different networks (LANs and/or MANs) available worldwide and makes them public. The internet connection is called WAN (Wide Area Network) that connects millions of smaller networks with over a billion computers connected at any given time. The most basic difference between a LAN and the Internet then, is that a LAN is private and localized, while the Internet is public and worldwide. A LAN is connected to a router using Ethernet cable but the internet links millions of networks through T1 telephone lines, fiber optic cable and other technologies. TO Download Complete Tutorial Hit Purchase Button IT 282 Week 7-Individua-Personal Computers on the Internetl Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or...
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...| Computer Networks | By:Yaafiz Mohamed (S12425216)Zimna Ahmed (S12465436)Shahuma Abdulla (S12465351)Najudha Adam (S12465351)Sama Ali (S12465333) | | | | | Table of Contents Introduction 3 Computer and Networking. 3 Characteristics of Computer Networks. 3 Types of Computer Networks. 4 PAN (Personal Area Network) 4 LAN (Local Area Network) 5 MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) 5 WAN (Wide Area Network) 5 CAN (Campus Area Network) 5 SAN (Storage Area Network) 5 Why do we network our computers? 6 Peer-to-peer networking. 6 Computer Network Technologies 7 Conclusion: 8 Reference: 9 Introduction The purpose of the report is to survey and monitor the current state of computer network and the types of computer networks. This report is written by examining a range of recent published articles, magazine articles, and internet sites on the topic of computer networks used which are used commonly. The report is mainly about the types of computer network and their functions. Computer and Networking. A computer is a programmable machine, which is designed to sequentially and arithmetically carry out a sequence of logical operations. The particular sequence of operation allowing to solve more than one kind of problem. It responds to a specific set of instructions in a well defined manner. It can execute a pre-recorded list of instructions. Main components of computers are input, output and process. (Thakur) According to (Mitchell, What is (Wireless...
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...Exercise 2.3.1 Briefly define LAN, MAN, PAN, and WAN. What is the critical distinction for these networks? What is the classification metric used here? LAN=Local Area Network-A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building, using network media. MAN=Metropolitan Area Network- A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic area or region larger than that covered by even a large local area network (LAN) but smaller than the area covered by a wide area network (WAN). PAN=Personal Area Network- A computer network used for data transmission among devices such as computers, telephones and personal digital assistants. WAN=Wide Area Network- A network that covers a broad area (i.e., any telecommunications network that links across metropolitan, regional, national or international boundaries) using leased telecommunication lines. Exercise 2.3.2 Network Topology is the arrangement of the various elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer network. Essentially, it is the topological structure of a network, and may be depicted physically or logically. The metric used to define networks by topology is what clients they are using and how they are using them. A wide area network is larger than a metropolitan network for example. Exercise 2.3.3 It would take 1 hop to send a message from A to B. To get...
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...Integrative Network Design Project Abstract Kudler Fine Foods is currently seeking to connect three locations via a Wide Area Network (WAN), create a wireless local area network (WLAN) in each store and add a voice over internet protocol phone system throughout the network. The purpose of this paper is to lay out a design that will accomplish these goals and includes the ability to expand beyond the current stores. Hardware and Software All computer networks are comprised of hardware components and software. Kudler Fine Foods has three locations and each of these locations require their own hardware components. The software components of the network will also need to be installed at each of the locations. The hardware components of the network, that will be located at each site, are a router, switch, firewall, end nodes, and wireless access points. A router will be used to allow each site to communicate with the other locations. A switch will be used to connect all of the point of sale terminals and user terminals with the router. A hardware firewall will be placed between the internet and the router to prevent unauthorized access to the system. The term end node refers to any device that is connected to the end of the wired or wireless network. End nodes, or end devices include user desktops, point of sale terminals, and server in this particular case. The wireless access points will be configured to only allow company approved devices access. The devices that are...
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...NT1210 Intro to Networking Lab 2.3 Exercise 2.3.1 LAN Local Area Network is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building using network media. MAN Metropolitan Area network is a computer network in which two or more computers or communicating devices or networks which are geographically separated but in same metropolitan city and are connected to each other are said to be connected on MAN. PAN personal area network is a computer network used for data transmission among devices such as computers, telephones and personal digital assistants. WAN A wide area network (WAN) is a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area and consists of two or more interconnected local area networks (LANs). The classification metric used here Exercise 2.3.2 Network Topology is the arrangement of the various elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer network. Essentially, it is the topological structure of a network, and may be depicted physically or logically. The metric used to define networks by topology is what clients they are using and how they are using them. A wide area network is larger than a metropolitan network for example. Exercise 2.3.3 It would take 1 hop to send a message from A to B. To get from B to A it would take 3 hops to send a message. It would take one link to connect E to D and C. It would add one message to the transverse of the ring. Exercise 2.3.4 ...
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...2/19/15 Modern day lives depend on the network or more specifically the internet. One could find this to be true if one had no access to the internet for one day. Networks at a base level can be explained as two or more electronic devices connected electronically sharing resources to one another. How we classify each network depends on the devices that are connected and the size of the network. Not all networks are created equally. One could categorize a network based on the size geographically. Is it a network that is in a room or small office building? Or do the systems attached to the network span the entire length of a state? Local Area Network or LAN is two or more electronic devices that are connected with in a limited area such as a room or building. The evolution of LANs has changed as technology has become more powerful. Early local area networks used coaxial cable as a means to communicate. Then in the 80s twisted pair starting with Cat3 cable made the splash in networks. Modern local area networks use Cat5 or Cat6 cable. The main thing to remember about Local Area Networks is this is Local and does not span over a far distance. Unlike LAN’s the Wide Area network does span over far distances. A good example of this is a company that has one building on 4th street and 20 miles away they have another building on 175th street. The company’s computers can share resources between buildings. This is still a network but spanned over far distances. Most of the...
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...Computer Network A computer network is a group of computers that are interconnected by electronic circuits or wireless transmissions of various designs and technologies for the purpose of exchanging data or communicating information between them or their users. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics. This article provides a general overview of types and categories and also presents the basic components of a network. Introduction A computer network allows sharing of resources and information among devices connected to the network. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) funded the design of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) for the United States Department of Defense. It was the first operational computer network in the world.[1] Development of the network began in 1969, based on designs developed during the 1960s. For a history see ARPANET, the first network. Purpose Facilitating communications Using a network, people can communicate efficiently and easily via e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, telephony, video telephone calls, and videoconferencing. Sharing hardware In a networked environment, each computer on a network can access and use hardware on the network. Suppose several personal computers on a network each require the use of a laser printer. If the personal computers and a laser are connected to a network, the personal computers users each can access the laser printer on the network, as they need...
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...choice of networks against all electronic threats. Networking hardware is hardware that is used to help work stations connect to a server. Although there are many different kinds of hardware like bridges, network cards the networking hardware that I have chosen to use in within my company’s network are routers, firewalls and switches. Using both routers and firewalls will help protect not only wireless networks but also those networks that use Ethernet cabling. I chose this hardware because I felt that it’s the best hardware to use when keeping my company’s network safe. The software that I have chosen to use is McAfee Anti-virus security software. This software along with the firewall will keep my company’s network safe and secure. Routers along with firewalls are the top network security hardware needed when it comes to keeping a network almost if not all totally secure. The firewall blocks out any unwanted activity as well block hackers from possibly hacking into our networks and stealing important information that pertains to our company and its customers. Along with the router and firewall networking software also plays a major part. The software is what the firewall uses to create its security barrier over the network. McAfee is one of the top manufacturers when it comes to network security. This software enables the use of not only the internet’s firewall but also the ability to detect viruses, anti-spyware upon the network, indicates safety of website upon network by color...
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...University Network Telecommunication Professor Name October 21, 2013 LAN, MAN and WAN Computer networking is simply the communication between two or more computers that allow them to share information and hardware resources. This is really one of the most important contributions to the information age since personal computers were invented. The connection and communication of just two computers exchanging data and devices is the most fundamental of networking. The computer systems may communicate over a computer network and share their resources (Computer Network, 2009). A computer network can be wire and or wireless. When a network is wired, it uses cables to connect group of computers together to enable data communication. Wireless networks allow computers to communicate by using radio signals, so the computers aren't restricted by physical cables (Lowe, 2011). For example, it uses bluetooth, infrared rays and radio waves to send and receive signals over the network. Peer-to-peer (p2p) and client-server are the two computer networks in use today. In a p2p network, every computer has the same or equal capabilities and responsibilities. And with a client server it is nothing like peer-to-peer, some computers are the clients that request for resources and the servers make available the requested resources. There are many categories of computer networking, but the most common are local area network (LAN), metropolitan area network and wide area network (WAN). Local...
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...INDP, Part 4 NTC/362 INDP, Part 4 Kudler Fine Foods is a small network considering that it spans across only three locations. Currently the network is utilizing a dedicated T3 connection between the stores with the La Jolla facility hosting the central servers. Each facility will have two firewalls, one for the intranet and one for the internet. An HP Blade Server model c3000 will be installed at each facility and will serve as the print/file server, communications, email, storage and web server. In addition to the Blade Server system La Jolla will also have a 10TB NAS to maintain records of all system transactions across the network. Operating on the network will be 31 computers, of these computers 13 will belong to the corporate admin and the remaining 18 will be utilized by the local store management. An APC Smart UPS rated at 5000va will be installed in each of the three server rooms. Telephonic communications will be made available using VOIP. La Jolla will have 19 total VOIP phones in order to accommodate the number of corporate administrators, the Del Mar and Encinitas facilities will only have 6 VOIP phones. The standards being applied to this project are LAN, WAN, Wireless, and VOIP. A LAN or local area network is created when multiple computers or devices are connected as a network providing services and applications within a common structure such as a single business, campus or region. A LAN is generally governed by the organization by an administrator who controls...
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