FIT1047 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wireless Lan, Wireless Access Point, Local Area Network

• School: Monash University
• Department: Information Technology
• Course: FIT1047
• Professor: Carsten Rudolf

Document Summary

Left half is a wireless local area network (wlan) with three laptops connected to a wlan access point and router. Right half is a network with a server connected to a router via a switch. Both networks connected to the internet represented by the cloud. Client : gives users access to the network. Server : stores data or software and makes it available to the clients over the network. Each device in a network needs a unique address to identify it as the receiver of a particular message. Ip address is used to send messages from one network to another network: mac address is used within the same local area network. Lan : local area network : room, building : a group of clients and servers that share a circuit. Bn : backbone network : < a few km : high speed connections between lans.