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Sunday, 30 June 2013

Communication Devices

Communication devices means a pice of equipment or hardware designed to more information or data from one place to another.

NIC ( Network Interface Card) 
-Computers on a network need to be able to communicate with server and with other computers. NIC required or a bulit- in network chip is included on the mother board.



Router

  This is very important network communication devices. It is responsible for sending network traffic to its correct destination.It works by reading the destination network address within each data packet ans send it along its way.

Modem

It is a devices used to convert digital data to analogue data in order to transmit it over the telephone network.


SWITCH

It is a computer networking devices that links network segments/ network devices. The terms commoly refers to a multi port network bridge that process and routes data at the data link layer of the OSI model.