EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Top-Level Domain, Email, Icann

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Roger Lew

Document Summary

Computer networks form an infrastructure that allows data to travel from some source computer to. Printers, for instance, can be connected directly to a network so that anyone on the network can print to them. share resources. Email, instant messaging, and web pages all rely on communication that occurs across an underlying computer network. printers. Some connections are wireless, using radio waves or infrared signals to convey data. Computer network: a collection of computing devices connected so that they can communicate and. We use networks so share both intangible resources, such as files, and tangible resources such as. Usually, connections between computers in a network are made using physical wires or cables. Wireless: a network connection made without physical wires. Networks are not defined by the ability to communicate. Computer networks contain devices other than computers. We use generic term node or host to refer to any device on a network. Node (host): any addressable device attached to a network.