Network System Technician

LAN

LANs connect PCs and peripherals, for example, printers within a building. A LAN is comprised of cabling, electronic equipment as switches and routers, as well as special software utilized in the network hardware. Network system technicians install the cabling and equipment and program the software. The reason for the LAN is to provide clients with the capacity to send and receive information and to print reports over the network infrastructure. Network technicians know about protocols that allow PCs and peripherals to convey accurately over a network.

Wide Area Networks

Companies with multiple buildings use WANs to keep all the buildings connected. Network system technicians are engaged with the installation of network equipment and software as routers to empower enterprise-wide data communications, building up a company's Intranet. Network system technician's work with telecommunication organizations to ensure the WAN service addresses the company's issues, and to confirm service providers can support all locations. Building areas that should be connected with a WAN may be within a single locale or spread over the globe, based on the company's geographic impression.

Network Management

A network system technician depends on management software, referred to as a network management system, to monitor the network's performance. Like an air traffic regulator seeing visual portrayals of planes showing up at and leaving from an air terminal, the network management system shows the application traffic going over the network. A network system technician uses this device to see how applications are performing dependent on attributes reflecting conditions, for example, green, yellow or red. A red condition demonstrates something is down and prompt activity is essential. This system is also used to survey factors, for example, bandwidth usage to help capacity planning and change management.