Part II
Infrastructure
The first part of this book started with a physical world shipping example, working through the problems, solutions, and implications of addresses on shipping packets. One tiny detail (okay, it is not so tiny) we skipped over from the original shipping in the real world is how packages are physically carried from one place to another. The physical trucks, vans, airplanes, ships, and trains must have equivalents in computer networks. Even if the signals are digital, there must be some physical path between the sender and receiver.
What does this path look like, and how does it work?
Part II of this book will aim to answer these questions by looking at the infrastructure of computer networks.
The first chapter in this part ...
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