Mission 012

Engineer Briefing

Early networks had a problem.

Imagine a classroom where everyone tries to speak at the same time.

The result:

• Nobody understands anything.
• Messages overlap.
• Communication becomes chaotic.

Networks experienced a similar problem.

When multiple devices shared the same communication path, their signals could interfere.

This created:

Collisions

Network engineers needed better designs.

This led to the development of:

• Switch-based networks.
• Segmentation.
• Broadcast control.

Mission Objectives