Network Types
A network that connects users and end devices within a small geographical area
What is a LAN?
In this network type, hosts can act as both clients and servers. They will directly connect to each other.
What is a peer-to-peer network?
What is a Host?
This cable type uses light pulses instead of electrical signals to transmit data.
What is a fiber-optic cable?
This network connects multiple LANs and is normally managed by an ISP
What is a WAN?
This network connects people across the entire world
What is the internet?
These devices receive and display information from servers
What is a Client?
This part of a computer allows it to connect to a network
What is a NIC?
This network type will connect multiple LANs in a smaller area than a WAN, it is often the size of a city or metropolitan area.
What is a MAN?
This device is often used to connect a LAN to a WAN
What is a router?
These devices provide information and resources to clients
What is a server?
This can be either a physical connector or a connection to a network
What is a port?
This is the acronym for a network the size of a small business or home.
What is SOHO?
This network is often faster but smaller than a WAN
What is a LAN?
This device connects devices to each other within a LAN
What is a router?
This is used to show how devices within a network are connected.
What is a logical topology?
This type of network is used to connect devices within a company without access to the internet.
What is an intranet?
This network is used to give secure access to multiple organizations that are working together, such as suppliers and collaborators.
What is an extranet?
This can either be software or hardware and provides security to a network
What is a firewall?
This is used to show how devices in a network connect and where they are located in the real world
What is a physical topology?