Network - Fundamentals

Network - Fundamentals

Network Cable

The standard for connecting machines to each other
  1. The easiest and most reliable to form a network.
  2. A printer, a WAM a PC, a CBOX
  3. Straight/cross cable difference

LAN

Local area network also called network

WiFi

Technology that uses bases common to Ethernet but without cables
  1. Through a radio frequency: 2.4Ghz / 5Ghz

PLC (Power Line Communication)

Technology that allows the use of electrical outlets to transmit a network.
  2. A house, a group of offices in the same building.
  3. Use with care

Extender

A device that extends the range of a network or interconnects two different types of networks. A network extender may refer to Wi-Fi, cellular (wireless) or Ethernet (wired).

AP or Access Point

In computing, an access point (AP) is a networking hardware device that acts as a communication hub for users of a wireless device to connect to a wireless LAN.

RJ45 port

Check the physical connection via the connector LEDs



Router

A router is a device that provides a Wi-Fi connection, usually connected to a modem, and sends information from the Internet to your personal devices, such as computers, phones, or tablets. The devices that are connected to the Internet in your home make up your local area network (LAN).

Switch

A switch or switch is an interconnection device used to connect computers in a network forming what is known as a local area network (LAN) and whose technical specifications follow the standard known as Ethernet.

IP or IP address

IP addresses are the numerical names that are assigned to a device as a "registration" so that it can be called by other devices. ... For example, a public IP address might be 63.45.12.34 and a private IP address might be 192.168.0.11.

Static IP

A static IP address is an IP address that always stays the same. If you have a web server, FTP server, or other Internet resource that must have an address that you cannot change, you can get a static IP address from your ISP. ... The static IP address must be configured manually.

Dynamic IP

A dynamic IP address is an IP address that the ISP allows a user to use temporarily. If a dynamic address is not in use, it can be automatically assigned to a different device. Dynamic IP addresses are assigned via DHCP or PPPoE

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a client/server protocol that automatically provides an Internet Protocol (IP) host with its IP address and other related configuration information, such as subnet mask and default gateway

Local server or localhost

A local server is one that is located on a specific computer. In this way, instead of accessing through a domain like the default eyecare.local, the local server has the IP and a section in the files that determines the content also known as localhost.

Remote Server

A remote server program is one that is installed on another computer, in it you can store your website, to access it is done through an IP address,
example: 192.168.49.102.
The servers use different protocols to transfer data, among them are: SHH, PHP and the most used FTP, http:// or https://

Cloud

Cloud literally means cloud. In computer terms, we refer to a paradigm that allows computing services to be offered through a network, which is normally the Internet. The cloud concept refers to the storage of data outside of our devices.

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