Networking Fundamentals

(Music) Welcome into Network Fundamentals. I'm your host, Lauren Deal, and join with me is Anthony Sequeira. How are you doing? I'm doing great, Lauren. Great to be here with you. I'm excited to have you join us and you as well, because we're going to be covering quite a bit. But Anthony, before we jump in, let's talk about who you are and a little bit of history with you. Sure. My name is Anthony Sequera, and I'm one of the full-time edutainers here at ACI Learning. It's been on and off since 2019, but again, now full-time with ACI and I'm thrilled. I am really excited to be teaching networking topics for ACI because that was my first specialty. Lauren, that started back in 1996. I guess I'm dating myself there a bit. For over 25 years, my specialty has really been networking. It's so exciting to be bringing network fundamentals to our students in this module. Well, you are an incredible instructor. I can't wait to be learning from you. We're going to be covering quite a bit in this module, in this course, so cover some of the high-level things we're going to talk about. Yeah. We're going to begin with a review of the OSI model. I'm going to try and make it so that our students watching this don't despise the OSI model. It is one of these things that students just grown and will roll their eyes when they hear it mentioned, but we're going to make sure that you fully understand it. That goes for a lot of the topics in our network fundamentals module, like TCPIP subnetting. That's another one that students will just be filled with fear and anxiety about. We're going to take those subjects that often strike fear into the hearts of students, and we're going to make sure you love them. And there's really nothing scary about them at all. It's going to be a great journey through some of those topics. We'll also look at physical things that you can actually touch and work with, like what are routers and what are switches and what are firewalls? And we'll talk about the various cables that connect all this stuff together, and we'll even discuss wireless fundamentals here in this module. So it's going to be a big one that is action packed. I'm excited because I'll be learning right along with you, asking all the questions that you may have at home. And I'm sure Anthony is going to use me as an in-class student. So give me some grace because I definitely will be learning. So Anthony, who would be the ideal person to watch this course with us? Yeah, the ideal person is any individual that, you know, maybe they have their CompTIA A plus certification or equivalent knowledge, and they want to take it to the next level when it comes to networking. Sure, in the CompTIA A plus world, networking is covered, but really, really shallow coverage. So we're going to build upon that and go much deeper. So I really would recommend this training to anyone interested in taking their networking knowledge to that next level. Well, I'm excited, Anthony, and I'm sure you are, too. Remember that you can follow along with the notes. And I think it's time that we get started. So why don't you click next and we'll see you in the first episode.