CCNA Exp1 - Chapter01 - Living in a Network-Centric World

Chapter 1 - Living in a Network Centric World

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Overview

• Describe how networks impact our daily lives.• Describe the role of data networking in the human network.• Identify the key components of any data network.• Identify the opportunities and challenges posed by

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• Identify the opportunities and challenges posed by converged networks.

• Describe the characteristics of network architectures: fault tolerance, scalability, quality of service and security.

• Install and use IRC clients and a Wikiserver.

Networks Supporting the Way We Live


• Early data networks were limited to exchanging character-based information between connected computer systems.

• Current networks have evolved to carry voice, video streams, text, and graphics between many different types of devices.


The Global Community• The creation of online communities for the exchange of ideas and

information has the potential to increase productivity opportunities across the globe.

• As the Internet connects people and promotes unfettered communication, it presents the platform on which to run businesses, to address emergencies, to inform individuals, and to support education,


address emergencies, to inform individuals, and to support education, science, and government.

• Play video to watch how the Internet, and its underlying technology, brings opportunities to people wherever they live or work


• Data networks that were once the transport of information from business to business have been repurposed to improve the quality of life for people everywhere.


Examples of Today’s Popular Communication Tools

• The existence and broad adoption of the Internet has ushered in new forms of communication that empower individuals to create information that can be accessed by a global audience such as:– Instant Messaging– Weblogs (blogs)– Wikis– Podcasting– Collaboration Tools


– Collaboration Tools

Networks Supporting the Way We Learn

• Communication, collaboration, and engagement are fundamental building blocks of education.

• Robust and reliable networks support and enrich student learning experiences.• Courses delivered using network or Internet resources are often called online

learning experiences, or e-learning.• Online courses can contain voice, data, and video, and are available to the

students at any time from any place.


Networks Supporting the Way We Learn

• Online learning opportunities can decrease time-consuming and costly travel yet still ensure that all employees are adequately trained to perform their jobs in a safe and productive manner.

• Online courseware and delivery offer many benefits to businesses such as:– Current and accurate training materials.– Availability of training to a wide audience.– Consistent quality of instruction.– Cost reduction.


– Cost reduction.

Networks Supporting the Way We Work

• The business networks evolved to enable the transmission of many different types of information services, including e-mail, video, messaging, and telephony.

• Today, networks provide a greater integration between related functions and organizations than was possible in the past.


Networks Supporting the Way We Play

• Describe ways communication over a network supports the way we play


What is Communication?

• Communication in our daily lives takes many forms and occurs in many environments.

• Before beginning to communicate with each other, we establish rules or agreements to govern the conversation. These rules, or protocols, must be followed in order for the message to be successfully delivered and understood. Among the protocols that govern successful human communication are:– An identified sender and receiver– Agreed upon method of communicating (face-to-face, telephone, letter,


– Agreed upon method of communicating (face-to-face, telephone, letter, photograph)

– Common language and grammar– Speed and timing of delivery– Confirmation or acknowledgement requirements

Quality of Communications

• The external factors affecting communication are related to the complexity of the network and the number of devices a message must pass through on its route to its final destination.

• External factors affecting the success of communication include:– The quality of the pathway between the sender and the recipient– The number of times the message has to change form – The number of times the message has to be redirected or readressed– The number of other messages being transmitted simultaneously on the


– The number of other messages being transmitted simultaneously on the communication network

– The amount of time allotted for successful communication

Quality of Communications

Internal Factors • Internal factors that interfere with network communication are related to the

nature of the message itself. • Internal factors affecting the successful communication across the network

include:– The size of the message– The complexity of the message


– The importance of the message

Communicating over Networks

• These data or information networks vary in size and capabilities, but all networks have four basic elements in common:

– Rules or agreements to govern how the messages are sent, directed, received and interpreted.

– The messages or units of information that travel from one device to another– A means of interconnecting these devices - a medium that can transport the

messages from one device to another

– Devices on the network that exchange messages with each other


The Elements of a Network







• Protocols are the rules that the networked devices use to communicate with each other.


Converged Networks

Multiple services-multiple networks• Traditional telephone, radio, television, and compu ter data networks each

have their own individual versions of the four basi c network elements.


Converged Networks

Converged networks• Technology advances are enabling us to consolidate these disparate

networks onto one platform - a platform defined as a converged network.


Converged Networks

• Intelligent Information Networks: The intelligent communications platform of tomorrow will offer so much more than basic connectivity and access to applications.

• Not only will voice and video be transmitted over the same network, the devices that perform the telephone switching and video broadcasting will be the same devices that route the messages through the network.


The Network Architecture

• Networks must support a wide range of applications and services, as well as operate over many different types of physical infrastructures.

• Four basic characteristics that the underlying architectures need to address in order to meet user expectations: fault tolerance, scalability, quality of service, and security.

• Fault Tolerance



Scalability



Quality of Service (QoS)



Security


A Fault Tolerant Network Architecture

Circuit Switched Connection-oriented Networks


A Fault Tolerant Network Architecture

• Packet Switched Connectionless Networks• Utilizing Packets• Packet-switched Connectionless Networks• Connection-oriented Networks


A Scalable Network Architecture

• The fact that the Internet is able to expand at the rate that it is, without seriously impacting the performance experienced by individual users, is a function of the design of the protocols and underlying technologies on which it is built.












Providing Quality of Service

• Achieving the required Quality of Service (QoS) by managing the delay and packet loss parameters on a network becomes the secret to a successful end-to-end application quality solution.

• QoS including following technical tasks:– Classification and marking.– Congestion avoidance.– Congestion management.– Traffic conditioning.


– Traffic conditioning.

Providing Quality of Service

• QoS mechanisms enable the establishment of queue management strategies that enforce priorities for different classifications of application data.

• Examples of priority decisions for an organization might include:– Time-sensitive communication.– Non time-sensitive communication.– High importance to organization.– Undesirable communication.


Providing Network Security

• Consequences of a network security breach could include:– Network outage that prevents communications and transactions occurring,

with consequent loss of business.– Misdirection and loss of personal or business funds.– Company intellectual property (research ideas, patents or designs) that is

stolen and used by a competitor.– Customer contract details that become known to competitors or made

public, resulting in a loss of market confidence in the business.


public, resulting in a loss of market confidence in the business.

Providing Network Security

• Security measures taken in a network should:– Prevent unauthorized disclosure or theft of information– Prevent unauthorized modification of information– Prevent Denial of Service

• Ensure confidentiality through use of– User authentication– Data encryption


– Data encryption• Maintain communication integrity through use of

– Digital signatures• Ensure availability through use of

– Firewalls– Redundant network – Architecture– Hardware without a – Single point of failure

Networking Career Opportunities

• Information Technology and networking careers are growing and evolving as fast as the underlying technologies and services.


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