The internet overview
What is the internet? This seemingly easy question might receive different answers depending on your background. The internet means different things to different people, the young, the older, the student, the teacher, the business person, a poet, all could have a different answer to the question.
To a network engineer and systems engineer by extension, the internet is a global computer network providing a variety of information. This global computer network system is actually a web of internetwork connecting large and small networks together. Imagine your home network; it will consist of a home switch connecting your smart phone, tablet, computers, and TV together, so they can communicate with each other. Then, when ...
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