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Network Hardware

The building blocks of networks are network hardware devices such as servers, adapter cards, cables, hubs, switches, routers, and so on. This tutorial provides an overview of these building blocks.

Following these sections:

  • Servers
  • What's important in a server
  • Components of a server computer
  • Server form factors
  • Saving space with a KVM switch
  • Network Interface Cards
  • Network Cable
  • Coaxial cable
  • Twisted-pair cable
  • Hubs and Switches
  • Hubs and switches demystified
  • Repeaters
  • Bridges
  • Routers
  • Network Attached Storage
  • SAN is NAS spelled backwards
  • Network Printers

In this tutorial:

  1. Servers
  2. What's important in a server
  3. Components of a server computer
  4. Server form factors
  5. Saving space with a KVM switch
  6. Network Interface Cards
  7. Network Cable
  8. Coaxial cable
  9. Twisted-pair cable
  10. Hubs and Switches
  11. Hubs and switches demystified
  12. Repeaters
  13. Bridges
  14. Routers
  15. Network Attached Storage
  16. SAN is NAS spelled backwards
  17. Network Printers