Cables and Protocols

Aims:

• To review network cable types
• To review some network protocols

Resources:

• Access to Lecture notes
  
• Access to internet search engine (eg google search for "UTP cable pinouts" or "TIA 568")
  

Exercises:

Network Cable Types

1. Write short notes on different cable types that can be used for a network, with emphasis on the differences between each.
2. List the different categories of cables that are specified (mainly for UTP cables), their data rates and uses.
3. construct a wiring diagram for UTP cables (using this template) that can be used to:
1. connect two dissimilar devices (eg a PC NIC and a hub)
2. connect two similar devices (eg a hub to a hub, or a PC NIC to another NIC)
   

Network Protocols

3. Write short notes on the following
1. TCP/UDP
2. IP
3. IPX
4. NetBEUI
5. Ethernet
6. Token Ring
7. ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
8. NCP
9. SMB
10. NetBIOS