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8.1.

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Making Connections
8.1 Building Networks: Network Structure and
Security
Year 8 Computing
Network Hardware
• For networks to function
properly, they need a number
of different pieces of network
hardware.
• Each piece of hardware has
its own role to play in
making sure the network
functions correctly.
User Guide to Network Hardware

• Your first task this lesson is to create a user guide


which will explain to someone with very little
knowledge of networks, what each piece of
hardware does and what it looks like.
• Your user guide will explain about the following
pieces of hardware:
• server
• network interface card
• network switch
• wireless access point
• router
User Guide to Network Hardware

• Log into One Drive and click on My Files.


• Open your Year 8 Computing Topic 1 folder and
add a new Word document.
• Rename it to Making Connections
• At the top of your Word document, type the title
Networking User Guide.
• Below the title, add a sub-heading: Network
Hardware
User Guide to Network Hardware

• Now add five more sub-headings:


• server save your images
because you will
• network interface card
use them later
• network switch
• wireless access point
• router
• Using the internet, find out about each piece of
hardware and provide some information and an image.
• Remember, you are writing a user guide for people
with very little technical knowledge about networks, so
if you don’t understand it, neither will they!
Wired vs Wireless
• The devices that make up a
network can be connected in
a variety of ways – using
wires or not using wires.
• We use the words wired
connection and wireless
connection.
• You need to know the
difference and their
limitations.
Wired connections
• Wired connections use copper wire or fibre-optic
cable.
• Fibre-optic cables are usually used to connect LANs
together to form WANs across large geographical
areas.
Copper wire
• Copper wire, also known as ethernet cable,
transmits data as electrical pulses and can transmit
about 10 Gb per second.
• It is often used to connect devices on a LAN as it
transmits data reliably over a distance of about 100
metres.
• Copper wire is cheap but is prone to interference.
Fibre-optic cable
• Fibre-optic cables transmit data as pulses of light,
which is much faster than electrical pulses.
• This means that they have a high bandwidth of up to
100 Tb per second.
• Fibre-optic cables are not prone to interference, so
they are more reliable than copper cables.
Wired connections
• Wired connections are often much more reliable and
faster than wireless connections.
• However, they can be expensive to install – imagine
how much ethernet cable is used to connect every
computer to the network switches in school.
• Also, devices connected using cables are not
portable as they can only move as far as the wires
will allow!
Build a network – part 1
• For the scenario below, produce a drawing in your Word
document connecting the devices to the network hardware.
• Use red lines to represent the ethernet cables.
• To start your drawing, click Insert and Drawing. Use some
of the images you saved earlier in your drawing.

Scenario 1: A small office has a LAN with four desktop each


connected to a network switch. A printer and a router are also
connected to the switch.
Wireless connections
• The table below shows the most common standards
of wireless communication.
Wireless connections
• Wireless connections are great for convenience as
devices are portable.
• However, wireless connections are of subject to
interference, which can prevent data from
transmitting accurately.
• Also, the data transmitted wirelessly can be
intercepted easily.
• And wireless networks are often slower than wired
networks.
Build a network – part 2
• Now add the wireless devices to your drawing.
• Use blue lines for Bluetooth, use purple lines for wi-fi and
use yellow lines for 4G and 5G.
• You will need to either draw shapes to represent the wireless
devices, or you can save more image from the internet.

Scenario 2: The office needs 3 laptops connecting to the


router using wi-fi. Two of the workers have smart watches
connected to their smartphone via Bluetooth. The phones are
connected using 4G and 5G.
Exit Quiz
• Now find today’s lesson on Synergy and complete
the Exit Quiz by the end of this lesson.

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