After completing Networking Essentials: Planning a Topology the user should be able to:
 

	Select the appropriate media for various situations
	Select the appropriate topology for various Token Ring and Ethernet networks

Signal Transmission Basics
 

	Transmission frequencies
	Characteristics of transmission media

Coaxial Cable
 

	Thinnet cable
	Thicknet cable
	Coaxial characteristics
	Connectors for coaxial cable
	Fire code classifications

Twisted-Pair Cable
 

	Shielded twisted-pair cable
	Unshielded twisted-pair cable
	Twisted-pair characteristics

Fiber-Optic Cable
 

	Components of fiber-optic cable
	Fiber-optic characteristics
	IBM cabling

Wireless Media
 

	Reasons for wireless media
	Wireless communication with LANs
	Infrared transmission
	Laser transmission
	Narrow-band radio transmission
	Spread-spectrum radio transmission
	Wireless bridging

Mobile Computing
 

	Terrestrial microwave
	Satellite microwave

Access Methods
 

	Contention
	Token passing
	Comparison of contention and token passing methods
	Situations requiring token passing
	Demand priority

Physical and Logical Topologies
 

	Topology defined
	Bus topologies
	Ring topologies
	Star topologies

Ethernet
 

	Ethernet basics
	Ethernet cabling
	Ethernet topologies

Token Ring
 

	Token Ring cabling
	Passing data on Token Ring
	The beaconing process

This course is distributed with a glossary.