Networking Basics

Learning Outcomes

• Be able to compare local area networking with standalone operation.

• Describe the operations of bus, ring and star networks and compare the advantages and disadvantages

• Be able to compare local area networking with standalone operation.

Network Basics

• What is a ‘stand alone’ computer?

• What is a network?

• Why would someone want to create a network instead of having a group of stand alone computers?

Network Topology

What are the names of the three main types of network?

Your Task

You will need to create a 4 slide presentation, one for each type of network and one summary. One each slide you should have • Advantages, • Disadvantages• Hardware required• Diagram of each

Task 2

• You will need to describe these terms;– Each of the items of hardware included in a

network– Network segment (why are local-area networks

based on a bus topology are segmented?)– Peer-to-peer networking– Server-based networking– The differences between an networked

computer and stand alone computer (including advantages and disadvantages of each)