Inside Look at the Internet
1.1 What Is the Internet?
Chapter 1
1.1 What Is the Internet?
1.1.1 Nuts-and-Bolts Description
1.1.2 A Service Description
1.1.3 What Is a Protocol?
1.2 The Network Edge
1.2.1 End Systems, Clients, and Servers
1.2.2 Connectionless and Connection-Oriented Service
1.3 Network Core
1.3.1 Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
1.3.2 Packed-Switched Networks: Datagram Networks and Virtual-Circuit Networks
1.4 Access Networks and Physical Media
1.4.1 Access Networks
1.4.2 Physical Media
1.5 ISPs and Internet Backbones
1.6 Delay and Loss in Packets-Switched Networks
1.6.1 Types of Delay
1.6.2 Queuing Delay and Packet Loss
1.6.3 Delay and Routes in the Internet
1.7 Protocol Layers and Their Service Models
1.7.1 Layered Architecture
1.7.2 Layers, Messages, Segments, Datagrams, and Frames
The internet is very complex and ever changing, both in terms of its hardware and software components, as well as in the services it provides. The goal is to paint a braod picture, to see the forest throught the trees.
1.1.1 Nuts and Bolts Description
1.1.2 A Service Description
1.1.3 What Is a Protocol?
