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Networking Essentials: WAN Components

Course Status:	Released	Courseware Features
Course Language:	English
Course Duration:	4 Hours
Deployment Options:	Online, Interactive CDs, Network, Downloads, Intranet

Audience

Trainee network administrators

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the Microsoft Windows environment, a basic understanding of PC concepts and operating system fundamentals, and completion of all preceding content in this curriculum or its equivalent

Course Aim

To introduce the components of wide area networks

Learning Objectives

Describe how modems and repeaters are used to create wide area networks. Describe what bridges are and how to use them to extend a network. Describe routers and gateways, and show how they can be used to extend a LAN.

Topics Covered

Modems and repeaters - LAN expansion - Introducing modems - Types of modems - Repeaters Bridges - Introduction to bridges - Routing tables - Bridge topology Routers and gateways - Routers - Distinguishing routers from bridges - Gateways