Week 9
- Discuss the purpose of the components required for successful communications and identify various sending and receiving devices
- Describe the uses of computer communications
- List advantages of using a network, and differentiate among LANs, MANs, and WANs
- Differentiate between client/server and peer-to-peer networks, and describe how a P2P network works
- Differentiate among a star network, bus network, and ring network
- Describe the various network communications standards
- Explain the purpose of communications software
- Describe various types of lines for communications over the telephone network
- Describe commonly used communications devices
- Discuss different ways to set up a home network
- Describe various physical and wireless transmission media
