Week Seven: Remote Connectivity and Wireless Networking The ideal of remote connectivity isn’t anything new. Remote connection has been around for many years. The purpose for remote connection is to give users the ability to remotely connect and access their organization network for work related purpose. Remote connection is a great technique that network and system administrators utilized to their advantage because it give them the ability to remotely troubleshoot problem, update system software, and many more. There are two way remote connection can be establish and executed – the first and more advance one involve utilizing the Command-Line (script), and the second one is executing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) which was developed by Microsoft. RDP which was developed by Microsoft, “provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection.” To successfully execute remote connection using RDP, both computers must have RDP server software emp...
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Week Six: Internet Protocol version Six (IPv6). This week six topic focused on the fundamental concepts of Internet Protocol version six (IPv6), describing IPv6 practices, and the implementation of Pv6 in a Transmission Control Protocol/ Interprotocol (TCP/IP) network design. The Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) was developed for the purpose of assigning Internet Protocol addresses. IPv4 was developed to handled IP addresses for the foreseeable future, unfortunately, it turned out that wasn’t the case as the traffic (more computers became available in homes and smaller businesses) on the air wave begin too much to handle. The IPv6 was developed as the replacement for IPv4. IPv6 comes with tremendous benefits that IPv4 didn’t had, and one of those benefits that IPv6 come with has to do with its pool of unlimitedly IP address. IPv4 is stay in used at this current moment as IPv6 translation begin slowly into replacing IPv4. There is no comparison whatsoever between IPv4 an...
Week Five: Advanced Networking Devices - VPN Lots of topics were discussed for this week five chapters reading, and the four chapters reading are: TCP/IP Applications, Network Naming, Securing TCP/IP, and Advanced Networking Devices. All the contents or topics provided in each chapter reading played an important role in computer networking. The purpose for this blog is that I will be picking a single topic from one of the four chapters and discuss to the best of my knowledge. Let get started with that being said! Virtual Private Networks (VPN) VPN is configurated for secure network communications. VPN hides Internet Protocol (IP) address from could-be hackers, government agencies, corporations, etc. It doesn’t matter if whether you are connected to a VPN in public, your identity will stay always remind protocoled. You put your privacy at risk when connected to a public network because that public network doesn’t have encrypt tunnel, and therefore, has no endpoints. VPN in the other...
Week Four: TCP/IP, and Routing The week four topics focuses on Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and Routing. Both contents play an important role in the computer networking environment as we all know. Like every other technology that we heavily relied on to execute our daily activities, TCP/IP had a rough beginning. To put it into content, and be specific, TCP/IP was created by UNIX. In the early 80s, four of major players in the computer and network industry (Microsoft, Apple, Novell, and UNIX) had created their own protocol com communicating and sending data over a network. No one software or protocol could execute everything that the network required, and because of that, the four major companies decided to put together their “protocol under term the protocol suite.” The following are the lists of those protocol: IPX/ SPX represented Novell, NetBIOS/NetBEUI represented Microsoft, AppleTalk represented Apple, and TCP/IP represented UNIX. Eventually as time...
Week 3: Ethernet Basics, Modern Ethernet, and Installing Physical Network. The very purpose for this week blog is to turn our attention and focused on key networking devices and aspects like, Ethernet Basics, the Modern Ethernet, and Installing Physical Network. Ethernet Basics. The historical aspect of the network didn’t exist until the year 1973 when “Xerox answered the challenge of moving data without sneakers by developing Ethernet, a networking technology standard based on a bus topology” (Meyers, 2018). To see how dramatically the innovations and evolution of technology has progressed over the years, let take the original Ethernet for an example that used just a single pair of coaxial cable and compare it the modern Ethernet. The earlier/original Ethernet was seen as a success and transfer data at the rate of “three million bits per second (3 Mbps).” Can you ever imagine having to setup a network in this era that transfer data at such rate? The earlier Etherne...
Week Two: Cabling and Topology The discussion topic for week two in very important in that it focused on “whether there are too many standards organizations attempting to regulate the networking field, and if some form of consultation is necessary for governmental of larger international bodies should be formed in respective to manage standards.” The purpose of Standards organizations is set-up the blueprints for reliable, interoperable communications among various networks throughout the universe, and the top leading standards organizations as: 3 rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) – the purpose for 3PP is to develop protocols that are used for mobile telecommunications. 3PP is well known for its evolution and maintenance of Global System for Mobile (GSM), 2G, and 2.5G standards, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data-rate for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), 3G standards, High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), and HSPA+. ...
CompTIA Network+: Network Management & Infrastructure
Week One: Entry Blog. Hello to all, my name is Edward Cooper, and I was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. I came to the United States, November of 1996, and I reside in the beautiful state of New Jersey. I love working with different types of technologies and I just got through building a brand-new Personal Computer last month as I was pursuing my certification in Comp & Network Security Fund (CompTIA Security+), and Comp & Hardware and Software Mgmt. (CompTIA A+). I am currently taking a class in both Computer Server Environments (CompTIA Server+), and Network Mgmt. & Infrastructure (CompTIA Network+). Other than Windows Server that I have had some experiences (installed and configured) working with, I have not had experience with other vendors’ server platforms. Speaking of server, I have some experience when it come to computer networking and I was able to build a home network (LAN) with four computers, Windows server, routers hubs, and a sw...