miscellaneous network info
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Brief history, WANs, LANs Examples Issues Cabling. Miscellaneous Network Info. WAN – Wide Area Network. Connect geographically separate networks ATM has played an important part in WAN (not LAN). LAN. LAN. WAN. LAN. LAN. WANs started with telephone (analog) lines. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Miscellaneous Network Info• Brief history, WANs, LANs• Examples• Issues• Cabling
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WAN – Wide Area Network
• Connect geographically separate networks
• ATM has played an important part in WAN (not LAN)
WAN
LAN
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WANs started with telephone (analog) lines.
Needed to send digital data over analog lines.
Wanted to use digital lines (e.g. FR, ATM) instead.
A B
Digital linesAnalog lines
Modem
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LANs were serial until 1984 or so.
Wiring was a big problem!
VAX
36/64/128 serial ports (local or dial)
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• There were many network protocols e.g. Appletalk, IPX, Decnet, OSI, SNA, IP
• Routers were needed to route each of these
• Now, it’s pretty much an IP world
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Why doesn’t ATM play a role in the LAN?
• About 8 years ago ATM looked good, scalable (T1, T2, T3)
• Every frame 53 byte cell size so HW could be simple
• Had QOS feature built into the protocol• Current Ethernet switches would’ve been
ATM switches• BUT Ethernet kept ramping up, had an
installed base, and was simple
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LAN Technology BattlesIEEE 802.3 or ethernet (DEC, Xerox, Intel)
IEEE 802.4 token bus (General Motors)
IEEE 802.5 token ring (IBM)
Issues:Random access vs. deterministic approach
Installation
Hardware and cabling
Applications and protocols
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Ethernet won• Many hadn’t thought it would scale, but it did.
•To extend ethernet geographically, needed a bridge.Spanning tree algorithm was major development.
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Cabling System
IBM started building structured cabling plants.
Devised a better copper cable so got reasonable distance for digital info.
CAT 5 was a major innovation - at every jack guaranteed to work to 300 ft (100 m).
Future is fiber optic (cost still high).
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Example: Network with Collapsed Backbone
Traffic Collapses to the Core
Example: Core is ATM (OC3)
Each floor in each building has a switch
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To building floor
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…
OC3
OC3 OC3
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• Collapsed Backbone is where routing is
• Could build in redundancy by putting routers in buildings in case the backbone has a problem
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Example: To the Buildings…
• Optical fiber runs from backbone router to building (in conduits)
• Optical fiber runs between floors in building• Point of presence on each floor• From wiring closet on the floor, Category 5
(100Mbps) or Category 6 (1 Gbps), keep lengths to 50 m just to be safe
• Ethernet used
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Used to do this…
Bridge
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Now can do this…
Spanning tree is in silicon.Every port has spanning tree running on it.
Others don’t see conversation between ports.In switched ethernet, every port is its own ethernet.
10BaseT – 10 Mbps
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VLANsVirtual LANs, VLANs, were important in switches
Not physically connected as a LAN.
HW can be programmed so each port belongs to a VLAN(All belong to the same collision domain)So all on VLAN see the ethernet packet.
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Convergence
• Digitize all info & attach to a spigot so data, voice, video are carried together
• Ethernet best effort service caused doubt 8 years or so ago
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Private Branch Exchange
• Companies, enterprises use PBX for internal phone service
• PBX is a circuit switch
• Digital
• Doesn’t go through telephone net
• Phone line to PBX not very demanding (not like a data connection)
• Highly reliable
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• Hosted/Virtual PBX now available
• IP PBX now available
• Still need to connect to POTS (Plain Old Telephone System)
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Voice Over IP
• Taking phones off PBX to do VoIP or using IP PBX
• Some reliability issues in large environments
• Over the WAN, it’s good & saves money for individuals
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Quality of Service
• QOS management needed
• QOS being built into router ports
• QOS can be built into switch ports
• Need to control applications
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Example:Network Management
• Performance
• Fault
• Configuration
• Accounting
• Security:
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Performance
– Monitor activity of various types– Use traffic shaper that monitors application
traffic and, when configured % exceeded, drops packets
– Use Network Management platform to query nodes via SNMP and retrieve performance statistics
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Fault– Use SNMP to monitor switches, routers,
servers to see if they’re up or down– Notify via paging, email if something is down
(e.g. ISDN lines go down if no activity so may get errant message, then need to actively send traffic on line to check). Need to avoid storms.
– Knocking off a cable or making a change is most likely reason for a node to be down. Sometimes it’s the path to the node that’s down.
– Remote reboot.– Battery backups send low power traps.
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Configuration
– Do some configuring using SNMP sets, but often configure first then deploy
– Use Network Management platform to discover nodes in network to make sure nothing new is being attached or something isn’t being taken away
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Accounting
– Network manager specifies user and device access to network resources.
– Assigns privileges to user– No charge back
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• Security– Firewalls– Monitoring
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Some Link Layer Technologies
• Ethernet – CSMA/CD, 10 – 1000 Mbps• Fast Ethernet – 100 Mbps, needs Cat 5• Gigabit Ethernet – 1Gbps• LocalTalk – Apple, CSMA/CA• Token Ring – IBM, decreasing use• FDDI – Fiber Distributed Data, WAN• ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode,
WAN mostly
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Protocol Cable Speed Topology
Ethernet twisted pair coaxial fiber
10Mbps Linear bus
star, tree
Fast Ethernet
twisted pair fiber
100Mbps star
LocalTalk twisted pair .23Mbps Linear bus, star
Token Ring Fiber 4 – 16 Mbps
Star-Wired Ring
FDDI Fiber 100 Mbps Dual ring
ATM twisted pair fiber
155 – 248Mbps
Linear bus, star, tree
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Ethernet card with RJ-45, AUI, BNC connectors
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Twisted Pair
Found in telephone applications, ethernet. Form of wiring in which two conductors are wound together to cancel out electromagnetic interferencefrom external sources and crosstalk for neighboring wires.
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• 8 wires
• Shielded Twisted Pair used in areas susceptible to interference
• Unshielded Twisted Pair very common
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UTP Categories
Type UseCategory 1 Voice Only (Telephone Wire)Category 2 Data to 4 Mbps (LocalTalk)Category 3 Data to 10 Mbps (Ethernet)Category 4 Data to 20 Mbps (16 Mbps Token Ring)Category 5 Data to 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet)
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• Ethernet 10BaseT 10Mbps• Ethernet 100BaseTX 100Mbps• Cables connecting NIC cards are now
usually UTP with RJ-45 connectors• For 100BaseTX, the cable must satisfy
Category 5 rating.• Cat 5 has 4 pairs of twisted wires.
10BaseT and 100BaseTX Ethernet use only 2 of the pairs
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Twisted Pair – 2 Flavors
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Use Crossover to connect• 2 PCs
• 2 Routers
• 2 Hubs/Switch
Some hubs have an uplink port. Straight through can be used between uplink port of hub and regular hub port.
If UTP port on switch is MDI/MDI-X (Medium Dependent Interface), either can be used to connect to another
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Use straight through to connect
• PC to router
• PC to Hub/Switch
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Coaxial Cable
• Single copper conductor with plastic insulation and braided metal shield
• Difficult to install but greater cable lengths
• Thick (10Base5) 500 meters
• Thin (10Base2) 2 is for 200 but goes 185 meters
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BNC is most common connector for coax. Used for video connections – analog and digital. Were commonly used on 10base2 ethernet networks.
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Fiber Optic
• Glass core surrounded by protective materials (Ethernet is 10BaseF)
• Transmits light vs. electronic signals so eliminates electrical interference
• Longer distance than coax or twisted pair
• Immune to moisture, lighting problem
• Faster
• Difficult to install
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Fiber Optic Cable
Uses standard connector (FC, SC, ST, LC, MTRJ)
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AUI – Attachment Unit Interface
A 15 pin physical connector interface between a NIC and an Ethernet cable
• Some AUI/RJ-45 transceivers have AUI interface on one side and RJ-45 on the other
• Becoming rarer because it’s common to include Medium Attachment Unit (ethernet transceiver) internally
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Serial Connections
• Majority use RS-232
• RS-232 specifies 25-pin connector called DB-25. 25-pins not always needed so there are other connectors (DB-9, RJ-45)
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Serial Connection for Router Configuration
• One use is to connect router to PC console port for configuration then use a terminal emulation program (e.g. kermit) to talk to the router
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Serial Wan Connections
• Router may have one or more serial WAN interfaces in addition to Ethernet interfaces.
• Synchronous serial ports
• Can operate in full-duplex modes
• E.g. T1 line (1.544 Mbps)
• Framing may be Point-to-Point Protocol or High Level Data Link (HDLC)
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Cisco also uses proprietary DB-60 connector. To connect in lab, use
DB-60 crossover cable
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Typical T1 WAN connection
DSU/CSU – Data Server Unit/Channel Service Unit
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Miscellaneous Technologies• ISDN Integrated Services Digital
Net (not telephone line)• DSL Digital Subscriber Line (same
cable as telephone)• T1 1.5 Mbps ~$800/month• T3 2nd fastest non-optical 45 Mbps
~15K/month• SONET Synchronous Optical
Networking uses laser or light emitting diodes/LEDs to send digital info
• OC3 155.52 Mbps Optical size of largest Internet backbone provider
• OC12 fiber optic net 621.84 Mbps, smaller backbones
• OC48 2488.32 Mbps/2.4 Gbps (48x basic SONET signal 51.84 Mbps)
• OC192 as of 2005 only large ISPs 9953.28 Mbps
• OC768• 802.11b 11 Mbps• 802.11g 54 Mbps• Cable 10 – 20 Mbps ~$100/month• Satellite slower than DSL or cable• Broadband intranet access > 56K
dialup with cable modem and fiber optic
• 10 Gigabit ethernet