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Network Concepts and Communications

Session five will explain the human need to communicate has motivated the development of networking technology. You will identify the various types of physical connections possible in a network and the five basic properties of a network link and how each contributes to the link. Be able to understand the different ways of connecting computers in a network (bus, ring, star, tree, and fully connected). Also, identify the uses and benefits of DANs, LANs, MANs, and WANs. Be able to communicate how protocols control the flow of information between networks and how information is packaged and repackaged for each intervening network when it is sent on the Internet.

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	Textbook
The following are the activities for this Week. It is important to emphasize that each assignment is designed to be performed in one day, and maximum two if pertinent.
	Lauckner, Kurt E. and Linter, Mildred D., The Computer Continuum, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2001

Read from the textbook, "The Computer Continuum", chapter 7 (Network Concepts and Communications).

Session Five:

Post Bio to Chat Room.
Web Exercises:
p.227 #2
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		Post Group Project Two to Discussion Forum. Conduct Group Discussion of Group Project p 163. Post answers to Discussion Forum. Continue Final project Implement Group Project, p226 components into Final Project

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