33overview on Cloud and networking
1.5 Summary
is chapter introduces networking. It rst provides an overview of networks. en, it
discusses network operating systems. It also provides information on how the operat-
ing systems handle virtualization and support cloud computing. is chapter reviews
network architectures. Two abstract network architectures, the OSI network archi-
tecture and Internet network architecture, are introduced. e chapter then describes
the role of operating systems in developing network systems.
To prepare the computing environment for the hands-on practice in later chapters,
the activity of this chapter walked the reader through a process of creating virtual
machines and installing a guest operating system on the vi ...