School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Network hardware supported in Earth Sciences



Last revision July 28, 2004

Table of Contents:
  1. OSI model of network layers
  2. Common network protocols
  3. The campus network
  4. The School network
  5. Supported network hardware
  6. Operational features of ethernet
  7. Types of supported ethernet
  8. Legacy hardware support
  9. Network software protocol suites
  10. AppleTalk Zones
  11. NetBIOS on TCP/IP
  12. Windows network domains

"Ethernet" is the standard type of network hardware in use in Earth Sciences, and for that matter, in 95% or more of the rest of the world. It can support all types of network software protocols. It comes in several different flavors that support different transmission "speeds" (total amount of data that can be moved in a unit of time).

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