Network Components Basic P-1

What Are Network Devices and What Do They Do?

When you sit down to get something done on your computer, you may not realize it but you're relying on more than your Internet browser to get information, go shopping or send emails.

You're also relying on having an IP address that recognizes your computer, as well as a reliable network that you're connected to—and that can connect with everyone else. And that's what makes the "connectivity" possible.

Networks are more than computers and wiring. There also have to be specific devices—specialized pieces of hardware—that handle electrical/digital connections and perform their unique roles efficiently.

 The network components are used to build a perfect network infrastructure for any organization or office and etc.The Devices are available in different range (Config.& Price also)

The following Devices are

1. Hubs

2. 
   
   Switches

3. Bridges

4. 
   
   Routers

5. Gateways

6. CSU/DSU

7. Network interface cards (NICs), ISDN adapters, and system area network cards

8. 
   
   Wireless access points (WAPs)

9. 
   
   Modems

• Controlling traffic. 
• Large networks need a way to filter and isolate data traffic.
• Connectivity. 
• These devices can connect different types of networks using different types of network protocols.
• Hierarchical addressing. 
• Segmenting the network with connectivity devices provides an actual (physical) example of delivering actual data to the right destination through the IP address's network ID and host ID.

Bridge

Definition: 

A connectivity device that forwards data based on a physical address.

In networking terms, a bridge filters and forwards packets by physical address. Bridges operate at the Network Access Layer in the TCP/IP protocol stack.

Hub

Definition: 

    A connectivity device to which network cables are attached to form a network segment. Hubs typically do not filter data, but instead retransmit incoming data packets or frames to all parts.

Almost all networks today use a central hub or switch to which the computers on the network connect. In a hubbed network, each computer is connected to the hub through a single line. That makes adding a host to the network, or taking it off, a simple task.

Switch

Definition: 

    A switch is aware of addresses associated with each of its ports and forwards each incoming data frame to the correct port. Switches can base forwarding decisions on guidelines that are provided in the headers of the TCP/IP protocols.

A switch, simplified, is a smarter version of a hub. On a switch, as with a hub, each computer is connected through a single line. However, the switch is smarter about where it sends data that comes in through one of its ports.

Router

Definition

    A connectivity device that filters and forwards data based on a logical address. In the case of TCP/IP networks, that would be the IP address.

Routers are an essential part of any larger TCP/IP network. In fact, without the development of network routers and TCP/IP routing protocols, the Internet (the biggest network in the world) would not have become as extensive. Routers play a vital role in controlling traffic and keeping the network efficient.

Server

Definition

    A server is a computer or system that provides resources, data, services, or programs to other computers, known as clients, over a network.whenever computers share resources with client machines they are considered servers..

These are the network devices ...Some many devices are available in market...

Finally I am attaching total network image below.....

The image will taken from my system..Own design..