Network + class 1/27/10

Today we recapped on our previous class and talked a little more in depth about the OSI model. To see some information about this please scroll down through my blog to see what I said about the OSI model. After we finished with this we started to talk about Topology. Topology is basically a diagram about how computers are connected. We talked about 4 types:

First one is a bus topology,

Second is a ring topology,

The third was a star topology.

The last that we discussed was a hybrid. A hybrid is a mix of the three. There is a box and on the inside there will be a bus or ring connection with cables coming out of it like the star (think about a game console).

After we talked about this started to move onto cabling, were we were to that there are three types of cables and they are coaxial, twisted pair, and fiber-optic. Shortly after this we stated our lab.