Chapter 17

Networking Components

This chapter covers the following topics:

What Are Networks?: This section describes what a network is and introduces the types of networks.

Elements of Networks: This section provides an overview of various networking elements, including hubs, switches, routers, and VLANs.

Software-Defined Networking: This section provides an overview of the fundamentals of the control, data, and management planes.

Over the past several decades, Cisco has built the backbone of what we call the internet today and has developed and created networks big and small, including enterprise networks and service provider networks. In Chapter 16, “Network Fundamentals,” you learned some networking basics. This chapter covers networking ...

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