Living in a Network

Centric World

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Introduction to Data Communication =

CCNA1 version 4.0, 3 points
Instructor: Harri Ahola,
harri.ahola@metropolia.fi
14 weeks, 3 hours/week: labs,lab
reports, case study and online
assessments

Cisco Certifications:
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/index.jspa

You will learn about:

Network terminology and protocols
OSI Model
Basics of Hubs,Switches and Routers
Ethernet fundamentals
TCP/IP Protocol suite and IP addressing
including subnets
Basic router configuration.

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To Locate Materials on Academy

Connection:
Go to the web site: http://cisco.netacad.net
This site is used for online assessments
login using your own username & password (see email from Cisco)

At Metropolia: http://academy.metropolia.fi
This is for online studying in read-only mode
user: ccna1
password: Explorer09

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Lesson 1: Contents
Introduction - Networks are everywhere!
Communication over the network
Network Types / Structures
Protocols = Rules in networks
Layered Network Models

TCP/IP

OSI

PDUs and encapsulation

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PDU naming at each Layer

Encapsulation / Decapsulation

Addressing at each Layer

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Objectives - Networks are Everywhere

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
converged networks.
Describe the characteristics of network architectures:
fault tolerance, scalability, quality of service and
security.
Install and use IRC clients and a Wiki server.

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How Networks Impact Daily Life Everywhere!

Describe ways communication over a network changes
the way we work (Networks are everywhere!)

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Data Networking Role, Components, and

Challenges
Describe the role of data networking in communications

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How Networks Impact Daily Life - Real

Time Information
Describe the characteristics and purpose of popular
communication media such as, IM, Wikis , Blogs, Podcasting, and
Collaboration Tools
Instant messaging
Real time communication
between 2 or more
people based on typed text
Weblogs (Blogs)
Web pages created
by an individual
Podcasting
Website that contains
audio files available
for downloading

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How Networks Impact Daily Life - Work

Describe the role of converged networks in
communications
Converged network
A type of network that can carry voice, video & data over
the same network

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How Networks Impact Daily Life - Learn

Explain ways that using information networks to share
and collaborate improves teaching and learning

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How Networks Impact Daily Life - Play

Describe ways communication over a network supports
the way we play

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Objectives - Networks are Everywhere

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
converged networks.
Describe the characteristics of network architectures:
fault tolerance, scalability, quality of service and
security.
Install and use IRC clients and a Wiki server.

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Data Networking Role, Components, and

Challenges
Describe the various
elements that make up a
network
Devices
These are used to
communicate with one
another
Medium
This is how the devices
are connected together
Messages
Information that travels
over the medium
Rules
Governs how messages
flow across network
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Network Architecture Characteristics Packet Switching

Describe how packet switching helps improve the
resiliency and fault tolerance of the Internet architecture

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Network Architecture Characteristics Internet

Describe characteristics of the Internet that help it scale
to meet user demand
Hierarchical
Common standards
Common protocols

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Network Architecture Characteristics Converged Networks

Describe the role of converged networks in
communications
Converged network
A type of network that can carry voice, video & data over
the same network

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Network Architecture Characteristics Other Vital Features

Explain four characteristics that are addressed by
network architecture design
Fault tolerance
Scalability
Quality of service
Security

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IRC Clients and Wiki Server

Install and use IRC clients and a Wiki server

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Summary

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