Part I: Introduction

Chapter goal:

• get context, overview, “feel” of networking

• more depth, detail later in course

• approach:

  • descriptive
  • use Internet as example

Overview:

• what’s the Internet

• what’s a protocol?

• network edge

• network core

• access net, physical media

• performance: loss, delay

• protocol layers, service models

• backbones, NAPs, ISPs

• history

• ATM network

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