CP102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Ipv4, Transmission Control Protocol, National Science Foundation
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Chapter 13: behind the scenes how the internet works. No single enity is in charge of the internet but there are several organizaion that manage the internet: internet society, internet engineering task force (ietf, internet architecture board (iab) Naional science foundaion (nsf) sill pays for a large porion of the internet"s infrastructure. Internet backbone: main paths of the internet, along which data travels the fastest. Opical carrier (oc) line: backbone is typically a high-speed iber-opic line designed as this. T line: carries digital data over twisted-pair wires. Web servers: computers that run specialized os enabling them to provide requested informaion to clients. Commerce servers: computers that host sotware to allow users to buy goods and services over the web. File servers: computers that provide remote storage space for users to download iles. Computer protocol: set of rules for exchanging electronic informaion.
