HOUR 12Assembling a Network
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Preparing to assemble the networking hardware
• I/O and IRQ concepts
• How to install adapter cards
• How to set up a wiring closet
By this hour, we’ve acquired a solid understanding of the operations of computer networks. We’ve covered the fundamentals of network hardware, software, and protocols. We’ve focused on how to establish the user requirements for a network, as well as how to design the network.
You’ve already learned how to identify network hardware, and in this hour, you and your design team will pull it all together and deal with how to plug pieces of the network together.
This hour will familiarize you with installation processes for the hardware you’ve read about in ...
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