CHAPTER SUMMARY
This chapter has presented an overview of the network components and protocols that are used in building data communications systems. Each network component—each network process—carries out a task at some level within a layered protocol stack. Network engineers use layers of the OSI Reference Model to describe the roles and responsibilities of all network components. When a computer is engaged in communications with another computer, each layer of the protocol stack it is running converses with a corresponding layer running on the remote system. Protocol layers interface with their adjacent layers using service access points.
Most Internet applications rely on TCP/IP, which is by far the most widely deployed data communications ...
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