Computer network devices also known as communication devices and they constitute a data communication network. These devices are routers, switches, hubs, LAN cards, gateway, modems, hardware firewall, CSU/DSU, ISDN terminals and transceivers. In an Ethernet or WAN network, the data communication cannot be performed without these devices. Being an IT professional or a network administrator, you must have the good understanding of these devices.
Network.
All the data that a network transmits in chunks is called packets.A packetis one unit of binary data capable of being routed through a computer network. To improve communication performance and reliability, each message sent between two network devices is often subdivided into packets by the underlying hardware and software.
The basic hardware building blocks to interconnect network nodes include network interface cards (NICs) for connecting devices to the network, switches for connecting multiple devices within a local network, routers for managing traffic between different networks, and cables or wireless connections for transmitting data between nodes.
Modern networks used two devices for the data packets within the network will flow easily. The two devices are the routers and switches.
Input devices.
How fast data travels through the network. How far devices can be from the router. How secure the network can be made
Network Data Management Protocol or NDMP is used to transport data between NAS devices and backup devices. It is a faster transfer protocol because the data does not transport through the backup server.
Router
devices that is used for entering data in to an electronic machine
through keyboard only we can enter the commands into the computer.
Storage appliances are actually made for storing the data to be used or data to be utilized in future for computer.Also in case of computer storage devices called memory devices does the job of storing various application and programs or for storing system information. In case of network devices,they are used to interconnect various computer through one of them as server.The sharing of data through all network connected computers can be done with huge transfer rate.