Network Hardware

Watch and follow the YouTube video, the lesson contains three parts:

Key Information and content - all you need to do here is watch and listen. We recommend you take some notes for this one!
Learning activity - You are to complete the table to identify network devices.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.

Network Hardware Full Lesson Video.mp4

Task - Network Hardware

Network Hardware Activity

Exam Questions - Web

NIC
- To connect Ethernet cable to computer
Router
- to receive and transmit data within the network/ to send data around a network
Bridge
- connect networks together
Switch
- to connect multiple devices together
Hub
- to connect multiple devices together
Server
- to store the data/manage the network
Wireless Access Point/WAP
- to allow for wireless transmission of data
Cables
- to connect devices together
Modem
- To connect computers via a telephone lines/ to convert digital data to analogue / to convert analogue data to digital