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Data Communication & Computer Network
Data communications refers to the transmission of this digital data between two or more
computers and a computer network or data network is a telecommunications network
that allows computers to exchange data. The physical connection between networked
computing devices is established using either cable media or wireless media. The best-
known computer network is the Internet.
This tutorial should teach you basics of Data Communication and Computer Network
(DCN) and will also take you through various advance concepts related to Data
Communication and Computer Network.
Why to Learn Data Communication & Computer Network?
Network Basic Understanding
A system of interconnected computers and computerized peripherals such as printers is
called computer network. This interconnection among computers facilitates information
sharing among them. Computers may connect to each other by either wired or wireless
media.
Network Engineering
Networking engineering is a complicated task, which involves software, firmware, chip level
engineering, hardware, and electric pulses. To ease network engineering, the whole
networking concept is divided into multiple layers. Each layer is involved in some particular
task and is independent of all other layers. But as a whole, almost all networking tasks
depend on all of these layers. Layers share data between them and they depend on each
other only to take input and send output.
Internet
A network of networks is called an internetwork, or simply the internet. It is the largest
network in existence on this [Link] internet hugely connects all WANs and it can have
connection to LANs and Home networks. Internet uses TCP/IP protocol suite and uses IP
as its addressing protocol. Present day, Internet is widely implemented using IPv4. Because
of shortage of address spaces, it is gradually migrating from IPv4 to IPv6.
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Internet enables its users to share and access enormous amount of information
worldwide. It uses WWW, FTP, email services, audio and video streaming etc. At huge level,
internet works on Client-Server model.
Internet uses very high speed backbone of fiber optics. To inter-connect various
continents, fibers are laid under sea known to us as submarine communication cable.
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Applications of Communication & Computer Network
Computer systems and peripherals are connected to form a [Link] provide
numerous advantages:
Resource sharing such as printers and storage devices
Exchange of information by means of e-Mails and FTP
Information sharing by using Web or Internet
Interaction with other users using dynamic web pages
IP phones
Video conferences
Parallel computing
Instant messaging
Audience
This tutorial has been prepared for the computer science graduates to help them
understand the basic to advanced concepts related to Data Communication and Computer
Networking. After completing this tutorial you will find yourself at a moderate level of
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expertise in Data Communication and Computer Networking from where you can take
yourself to next levels.
Prerequisites
Before you start proceeding with this tutorial, I'm making an assumption that you are
already aware about basic computer concepts like what is keyboard, mouse, monitor,
input, output, primary memory and secondary memory etc. If you are not well aware of
these concepts then I will suggest to go through our short tutorial on Computer
Fundamentals.
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