A computer network can be described as a system of interconnected devices that can communicate using some common standards (called protocols). These devices communicate to exchange resources (e.g. files and printers) and services. Here is an …
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What is OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) & TCP/IP models? CCNA Tutorial
OSI model OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model was created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), an international standard-setting body. It was designed to be a reference model for describing the functions of a communication system. The …
Read More »What is Local area network (LAN)? CCNA Tutorial
The term local area network (LAN) is commonly used to describe a network of devices in a limited area (a house, office, building…). This type of network is usually capable of achieving high data transfer rate (up …
Read More »What is Wide area network? CCNA Tutorial
The term wide area network is used to describe a network that spans multiple geographic locations. Consider an example. A company has two offices, one in London and one in Berlin. Both offices have a LAN. If …
Read More »What is Encapsulation in Computer Network? CCNA Tutorial
The term encapsulation is used to describe a process of adding headers and trailers around some data. For example, here is what happens when you send an email using your favourite email program (like Outlook or Thunderbird): …
Read More »What is Ethernet? CCNA Tutorial
Ethernet is the most used networking technology for LANs today. It defines wiring and signaling for the Physical layer of the OSI model. For the Data Link layer, it defines frame formats and protocols. Ethernet is …
Read More »What is Ethernet frame? CCNA Tutorial
We have already learned that encapsulated data defined by the Network Access layer is called an Ethernet frame. An Ethernet frame starts with a header, which contains the source and destination MAC addresses, among other …
Read More »What is MAC & IP addresses? CCNA Tutorial
MAC address A Media Access Control (MAC) address is a 48-bit (6 bytes) address that is used for communication between two hosts in an Ethernet environment. It is a hardware address, which means that it is stored …
Read More »What is Ethernet addresses Unicast, multicast, and broadcast addresses? CCNA Tutorial
There are three types of Ethernet addresses: unicast addresses – represent a single LAN interface. A unicast frame will be sent to a specific device, not to a group of devices on the LAN. multicast addresses – …
Read More »What is Network devices? CCNA Tutorial
Network devices Hubs A hub serves as a central point to which all of the hosts in a network connect to. A Hub is an OSI Layer 1 device and has no concept of Ethernet …
Read More »What are the various difference between full duplex and half duplex? CCNA Tutorial
Difference between a full duplex and half duplex. half-duplex – a port can send data only when it is not receiving data. In other words, it cannot send and receive data at the same time. …
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full-duplex – all nodes can send and receive on their port at the same time. There are no collisions in full-duplex mode, but the host NIC and the switch port must support the full-duplex mode. Full-duplex …
Read More »What is Half duplex? CCNA Tutorial
Half-duplex data transmission means that data can be transmitted in both directions on a signal carrier, but not at the same time. For example, on a local area network using a technology that has half-duplex …
Read More »What is IEEE Ethernet standards? CCNA Tutorial
Ethernet is defined in a number of IEEE 802.3 standards. These standards define the physical and data-link layer specifications for Ethernet. The most important 802.3 standards are: 10Base-T (IEEE 802.3) – 10 Mbps with category 3 …
Read More »How many types of Ethernet cabling? CCNA Tutorial
There are three cable types commonly used for Ethernet cabling: coaxial, twisted pair, and fiber-optic cabling. In today’s LANs, the twisted pair cabling is the most popular type of cabling, but the fiber-optic cabling usage …
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