Network Hardware

 Assalamu Alaikum!

Welcome back! 

Today, my topic is about network hardware. 

What is Hardware?

Hardware are the things we can touch, like parts of a computer like mouse, keyboard and printer.

What is Network?

Network is a kind of system that connects two or more devices so that they can share data to each other.

Now that we know these things, lets come to network hardware.

Network hardware are the physical components that are used to connect devices with network and let them interact with each other. Devices can be connected to the internet with wires, or without wires. How? Lets learn!

With wires:

Some digital devices connect to a network using an Ethernet cable.

There are two main types of connecting to a network with wires: a switch and a router. They are kinda similar but also different.

Switch:

A switch allows us to connect wired devices to a network, like a phone or a laptop. There are lots of cables in the switch, which means that we can connect lots of devices with the network.

Router:

A router allows different networks to communicate with each other. We can connect the router to the switch so that they can provide network to those devices. Routers can connect devices to a small network, like our home network, from the internet. We will learn what internet is later, InshaAllah.

Without wires:

We connect devices with a network without wires using a wireless access point.

An example of a wireless access point is a WiFi access point. An advantage of wireless access point is that we can connect many devices with the network. 

These are used to transmit (send) data to any device nearby. That means it sends signal to the device, which are special waves that allows the WiFi access point to communicate with the devices nearby.

However, the signals go for a limited distance. The further you are from the WiFi access point, the weaker the signal.

So, that's all for today! Hope this was useful in any way. If you have any queries or questions, feel free to comment and I will try my best to answer!

Assalamu Alaikum!