This week’s topics
Networking hardware: routers, switches and gateways; cabling and speeds
- Networking hardware: routers, switches and gateways
- Fibre and copper infrastructure and transmission speeds
What you will be able to do
- 2.2 Explain the role of network hardware components such as routers and switches.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the role of network hardware components such as routers and switches.
Study materials
Videos
- Network hardware and MAC addresses · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
- Wired networks · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
- Network performance · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
- Calculating download time given file size and transfer speed part 1 · YouTube · Kevin Brucks · 4 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Workplace Software and Skills, 1.2: Network Hardware · PDF · OpenStax Workplace Software and Skills (2023), 1.2 on routers, switches, wireless devices and servers, pp. 30–31 · for registered students
- An Introduction to Computer Networks, 4.2.4: Access Points · PDF · Dordal, An Introduction to Computer Networks, release 2.0.11, 4.2.4 on wireless access points, pp. 107–113 · for registered students
- An Introduction to Computer Networks, 4.4: Fixed Wireless and satellite · PDF · Dordal, An Introduction to Computer Networks, release 2.0.11, 4.4 on broadband access to the WAN (a step up), pp. 128–130 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
