Networking Essentials: Planning a Topology

Synopsis
Networking Essentials: Planning a Topology discusses some of the more common network transmission media, access methods, and topologies. Then it describes how these apply to Ethernet and Token Ring networks.

Audience
This course is for anyone preparing for the MCSE Networking Essentials exam 70-58 or anyone who wants to learn more about transmission media or networking topologies.

Time
4 hours

Product Code: NESC03

After completing Networking Essentials: Planning a Topology, the user should be able to:

Select the appropriate media for various situations

Select the appropriate topology for various Token Ring and Ethernet networks

Signal Transmission Basics

Transmission frequencies

Characteristics of transmission media

Coaxial Cable

Thinnet cable

Thicknet cable

Coaxial characteristics

Connectors for coaxial cable

Fire code classifications

Twisted-Pair Cable

Shielded twisted-pair cable

Unshielded twisted-pair cable

Twisted-pair characteristics

Fiber-Optic Cable

Components of fiber-optic cable

Fiber-optic characteristics

IBM cabling

Wireless Media

Reasons for wireless media

Wireless communication with LANs

Infrared transmission

Laser transmission

Narrow-band radio transmission

Spread-spectrum radio transmission

Wireless bridging

Mobile Computing

Terrestrial microwave

Satellite microwave

Access Methods

Contention

Token passing

Comparison of contention and token passing methods

Situations requiring token passing

Demand priority

Physical and Logical Topologies

Topology defined

Bus topologies

Ring topologies

Star topologies

Ethernet

Ethernet basics

Ethernet cabling

Ethernet topologies

Token Ring

Token Ring cabling

Passing data on Token Ring

The beaconing process

This course is distributed with a glossary.