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    CCNA

    Module 2
    -Chapter 1Introduction to Switch Networks
    Converged Networks
    Our digital world is changing. The ability to access the Internet and the corporate
    network is no longer confined to physical offices, geographical locations, or time
    zones.
    Networks need to be more secure, reliable, and highly available.
    A converged network with collaboration support may include features such as the
    following:
    Call control
    Voicemail
    Mobility
    Automated attendant

    One of the more recent developments in network design is illustrated by the Cisco
    Borderless Network architecture; which is a network architecture that combines
    several innovations and design considerations to allow organizations to connect
    anyone, anywhere, anytime, and on any device securely, reliably, and seamlessly.
    Borderless switched network design guidelines are built upon the following
    principles:
    Hierarchical
    Modularity
    Resiliency
    Flexibility
    The three critical layers within these designs are the access, distribution, and core
    layers
    1. Access Layer; represents the network edge, where traffic enters or exits the
    campus network.

    2. Distribution Layer; provides intelligent switching, routing, and network access


    policy functions to access the rest of the network. Provides high availability
    through redundant distribution layer switches to the end-user and equal cost
    paths to the core.
    3. Core Layer; the core layer is the network backbone. The primary purpose of
    the core layer is to provide fault isolation and high-speed backbone
    connectivity.
    Switched Networks
    A switched LAN allows more flexibility, traffic management, and additional features,
    such as:
    Quality of service
    Additional security
    Support for wireless networking and connectivity
    Support for new technologies, such as IP telephony and mobility services
    When selecting the type of switch, the network designer must choose between a
    fixed or a modular configuration, and stackable or non-stackable.

    Frame Forwarding
    The fundamental concept of switching refers to a device making a decision based
    on two criteria:
    -

    Ingress port
    Destination address

    The decision on how a switch forwards traffic is made in relation to the flow of that
    traffic. The term ingress is used to describe where a frame enters the device on a
    port. The term egress is used to describe frames leaving the device from a
    particular port.

    When a switch makes a decision, it is based on the ingress port and the destination
    address of the message.
    As the switch learns the relationship of ports to devices, it builds a table called a
    MAC address, or content addressable memory (CAM) table. CAM is a special type of
    memory used in high-speed searching applications.
    A switch builds its MAC address table by recording the MAC address of each device
    connected to each of its ports. The switch uses the information in the MAC address
    table to send frames destined for a specific device out the port which has been
    assigned to that device.
    A switch populates the MAC address table based on source MAC addresses. When a
    switch receives an incoming frame with a destination MAC address that is not found
    in the MAC address table, the switch forwards the frame out of all ports (flooding)
    except for the ingress port of the frame. When the destination device responds, the
    switch adds the source MAC address of the frame and the port where the frame was
    received to the MAC address table. In networks with multiple interconnected
    switches, the MAC address table contains multiple MAC addresses for a single port
    connected to the other switches.
    These LAN switches were able to move the Layer 2 forwarding decisions from
    software to application-specific-integrated circuits (ASICs). ASICs reduce the packethandling time within the device, and allow the device to handle an increased
    number of ports without degrading performance. This method of forwarding data
    frames at Layer 2 was referred to as store-and-forward switching. This term different
    from cut-through switching.
    Store-and-forward
    Store-and-forward switching has two primary characteristics that distinguish it from
    cut-through: error checking and automatic buffering.
    I.
    Error Checking
    The switch compares the frame-check-sequence (FCS) value in the last field of the
    datagram against its own FCS calculations. The FCS is an error checking process
    that helps to ensure that the frame is free of physical and data-link errors. If the
    frame is error-free, the switch forwards the frame. Otherwise the frame is dropped.
    II.
    Automatic Buffering
    The ingress port buffering process used by store-and-forward switches provides the
    flexibility to support any mix of Ethernet speeds. With any mismatch in speeds
    between the ingress and egress ports, the switch stores the entire frame in a buffer,
    computes the FCS check, forwards it to the egress port buffer and then sends it.
    Store-and-forward switching is Ciscos primary LAN switching method.
    Cut-through
    Cut-through switch may forward invalid frames because no FCS check is performed.

    There are two primary characteristics of cut-through switching: rapid frame


    forwarding and fragment free.
    I.
    Rapid Frame Forwarding
    Can make a forwarding decision as soon as it has looked up the destination MAC
    address of the frame in its MAC address table. The switch does not have to wait for
    the rest of the frame to enter the ingress port before making its forwarding decision.
    The cut-through switching method does not drop most invalid frames. Frames with
    errors are forwarded to other segments of the network. If there is a high error rate
    (invalid frames) in the network, cut-through switching can have a negative impact
    on bandwidth; thus, clogging up bandwidth with damaged and invalid frames.
    II.
    Fragment Free
    Fragment free switching is a modified form of cut-through switching in which the
    switch waits for the collision window (64 bytes) to pass before forwarding the frame.
    This means each frame will be checked into the data field to make sure no
    fragmentation has occurred. Fragment free mode provides better error checking
    than cut-through, with practically no increase in latency.
    Switching Domains
    In hub-based Ethernet segments, network devices compete for the medium,
    because devices must take turns when transmitting. The network segments that
    share the same bandwidth between devices are known as collision domains,
    because when two or more devices within that segment try to communicate at the
    same time, collisions may occur.
    It is possible, however, to use other network devices (examples would include
    switches and routers) operating at the TCP/IP model network access layer and
    above to divide a network into segments and reduce the number of devices that
    compete for bandwidth. Each new segment results in a new collision domain. More
    bandwidth is available to the devices on a segment, and collisions in one collision
    domain do not interfere with the other segments. This is also known as
    microsegmentation.

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