Assembling and Cabling

Cisco Devices

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Chapter Objectives

Explain Network Devices

Connect Network Devices to the Router
Explain WAN Devices
Compare the Network Devices

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Recall - I

Different layers of TCP/IP stack include:

Application layer
Transport layer
Internet Layer
Network interface layer
Protocols that function at the application layer are:
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Telnet
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Protocols that function at the transport layer include:

TCP
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Protocols that function at the internet layer include:
Address Resolution protocol (ARP)
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP)
IP address is a 32-bit binary number that is unique for
each device
Smaller groups of a large network are known as
subnets
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Hubs

A hub joins multiple network segments together to

form a single segment
At a particular time, only one computer connected to
the hub can transmit data
The number of ports in a hub range from 4 to 24

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Switches

Switches are data-link layer devices that connect

multiple LAN segments to form a single network
segment
Switches examine the data packets for source and
destination addresses
Switches minimize the possibility of collisions of data
packets by reducing collision domains

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Switches

Types of Switches

Managed

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Unmanaged

Switches
Types of
Switching

Cut
through Switch

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Store and Forward

Switch

Fragment Free
Switching

Routers

Routers are devices that forward data to their

appropriate destinations
Routers decide the best possible route that a packet
needs to take to reach its destination
Routers maintain a routing table to decide the route
for the data

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Routers

The functions of routers are:

Provide traffic management
Do not pass broadcast traffic
Connect different network segments

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Case Study
The Blue Diamond Steel Company has decided to
shift the Finance department from the Hyderabad
branch to the primary branch in Gujarat. Suddenly,
the LAN connected to the finance department was not
processing any requests. This lead to delay in
sending the payroll details to HR department in
Hyderabad and Gujarat.

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Problem
After troubleshooting the router connected to the
LAN of finance department, the network
administrator identified that the router gets heated
up this is stopping the transfer of information
between the networks

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Suggested Solution

The network administrator suggests that he had

configured a Cisco 1700 series router and it can be
connected to the LAN.

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Repeaters

Repeater is a device that increases the strength of

the data signals sent across the network
It obtains a weak signal from the network, amplifies
it and passes it on to the next network segment

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WAN Devices

Wide Area Network (WAN) is a communication network

that spans over a wide geographical area
WAN technologies function at the lower three layers of the
OSI model, the physical layer, the data link layer and
network layer
Devices that are used in WAN are
WAN Switch
Access Server
Modem
Channel Service Unit
ISDN Terminal Adapter
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Bridges

Bridges are devices that divide the network into

different segments thereby, enabling you to reduce
traffic on the network
It decides the network segment where the data has
to travel in order to reach its destination
It verifies the source and destination addresses of
the data packet from the routing table that it builds

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Summary - I

A hub joins multiple network segments together to

form a single segment
The active hubs regenerate the signals sent over
the network reducing attenuation
Attenuation refers to the phenomenon of weakening
of signals transmitted over the network
Passive hubs do not regenerate the signals but pass
them on to all the ports on the network
Hybrid hubs enable you to create a hub-based
network
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Summary - II

Switches are data-link layer devices that connect multiple

LAN segments to form a single network segment
Collision domains are the network segments between two
network devices
Microsegmentation is a technique by which the switches cut
down the collision domain into smaller segments
Routers are devices that forward data to their appropriate
destinations using a process known as routing

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Summary - III

A repeater is a device that amplifies the data signals

that are sent across the network
WAN or Wide Area Network is a communications
network that spans over a wide geographical area
Channel Service Unit (CSU) device provides a
digital interface for connecting routers to digital
circuits
ISDN Terminal Adapter enables you to connect an
ISDN interface to a router

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