14.1 Internet Services

When typical users think of internet services, they think of commercial services provided through web pages. A few may also think of email. To provide internet services, an enterprise connects itself to the internet and provides hosts for the appropriate services. Many enterprises rely on third parties to host their internet services, instead of managing the servers themselves. In either case, enterprise employees need internet access to manage and update the internet services. We discuss enterprise internet connections in Section 14.5.

Network services rely on communications, and communications rely on protocols. Our web browsers and email clients are clearly application programs, and they use application protocols ...

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