Network Access

(Music) Hey, thank you so much for joining us. I'm your host, Lauren Deal, and I'll be your learner advocate as we go along, asking some questions that you may have at home. What joined with me is Anthony Sequera, and we're going to be talking about network access. But before we jump into that, tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah, so my name is Anthony Sequera, as you heard, and I am a Cisco certified internetwork expert. That is number 15626, I believe. Yeah, I think that's my CCA number. Anyways, you can verify that if you like, just by doing a look up on my last name. But yeah, so what is a Cisco certified internetwork expert mean? It means that I have been doing networking for decades, basically, is what it means. And I went as far as you could go at the time in certification with Cisco systems. So I can't wait to bring that expertise to you and these videos that we are going to be covering that really do zero in on one of the most important aspects of networking today. And that is, how do we get people on the network? How do we get many, many users that are the ones we want on our network? How do we get them on easily? And how do we prevent those many users we don't want on our network? How do we keep them off the network? Absolutely. And speaking of which, you are an expert. And after all these decades of teaching, you are a phenomenal person to learn from. So I have to say firsthand, I'm excited to jump in. So we have which, what are we going to be covering? Yeah, one of the things that we'll focus on, well, two things, really, in this area of network access. And this is critical today, as I'm sure you realize, we need to talk about how do we get folks on the network efficiently that are wired. So wired connections, they are plugging in their laptop or their PC into the network. And then, as you might guess, we also need to spend some time in this module discussing how we get someone on wireless. That is equally as popular and in some environments more popular. Here at HQ, I think we have more people on the network wireless these days than we do wired. So both are going to be hugely important. And that's what we'll be delving deep into both wired and wireless network access connectivity. I'm excited to jump in. I feel like this is going to be a fun journey. Now, what viewers might benefit from this? You know, we are really going to build this from the ground up together. Ideally, our students would be A plus or equivalent knowledge. And I just want to quickly state that that means they know a lot. I don't know if you've checked out CompTIA's A plus certification lately, but it is not your grandparents A plus. It is something now that goes very deep, not just in hardware, but also software and also builds a foundation for networking. So if you've got a little bit of networking knowledge, that will be great. You're in the right place here as we really zero in on network access technologies. I'm excited. We're going to be covering quite a bit. So get your pen and your paper ready and let's get started.