Networking Concepts

WEBVTT Welcome and thanks for joining us for this overview. This is Networking Concepts. I'll be your host for this course, Sophie Goodwin. I'm an edutainer here at ACI Learning. You might have seen me hosting a few other courses, you know, here and there. And I'll be functioning as a kind of, I'm learning along with you. I'm a learner advocate. I'll be asking questions along the way that maybe you have at home and hopefully help and to kind of guide you through this content. But you may have noticed there's a gentleman to my right, Mr. Wes Bryan. He's going to be our subject matter expert for this course. Wes, could you tell us a little about yourself? Absolutely. So I've been teaching technical training for almost 15 years now. And I specialize in entry-level certification training and skills-based training. So I'm looking forward to, you know, joining you in this episode of this journey because we are going to be introducing things like Network Concepts. And it's something that I've been specializing doing that for, you know, better than a decade now. So networking concepts or network concepts could mean a lot of different things. What are some of the things we're going to be looking at in this course? Sure. So what we're going to do is we're going to talk about the foundational concepts behind networking communications. Right down to, you know, what are the difference between a client and a server. We're going to talk about protocols, right? What is a protocol? What is that, right? Network topologies. We're going to talk about connection media. We're going to talk about the various type of network appliances or devices you can see. We're going to talk about IP addressing. We'll talk about things like subnetting, VLSM, CIDR, classless inter-domain routing, and a whole bunch of other alphabet soup that as you join us, we will definitely be sure to tell you what those acronyms mean. And we look forward to seeing you in those episodes. Yeah. Shed some light on some of the acronyms that maybe you've heard if you're working in this field or if you've just been around some IT folks. And speaking of, you know, if you are working in this field or if you're just getting started, who's this course for? Okay. So this is kind of like a dual purpose type course. And what I mean by that is this is for people that are just getting into networking and maybe don't know any of the terms. But that doesn't mean that those of you that are maybe looking to progress in your networking career, maybe you're a break fix technician right now, and maybe you're looking to, you know, hop on over to the networking team, right? If you're looking to extend your knowledge, expand your knowledge, pass maybe what you have right now, well, then this is going to be the course for you. Because when it comes to networking, we're not really assuming you know much. I don't want to bring any assumptions to the table here. I will tell you one thing that you do have to kind of bring to the table here is a basic understanding of computing, all right? Because we're not going to really be talking about what's a hard drive or what's a CPU or what's in a workstation or the components in the server, right? That's, you know, another discussion. So make sure that you have a basic understanding of computing terms. And if you can bring that to the table, then we're going to help you out with the rest. These overviews oftentimes serve as kind of like an appetizer or a teaser as to what we can expect. So thank you for giving us kind of a heads up as to what we're going to be getting into in this course. And thank you for joining us for this overview. We'll see you in the course.