March 2006
Beginner
576 pages
13h
English

This Chapter provides a thorough overview of content networking to establish a general context for the more detailed topics covered in the remaining chapters. The Chapter presents the overview by covering the following topics:
<objective>Definition of content networking—Gives a general definition of the field.
</objective> <objective>The underlying technologies—Defines content networking with respect to the Open System Interconnection (OSI) and TCP/IP protocol stacks.
</objective> <objective>Purpose and goals of content networking—Informs the reader of the motivation behind ...