Practical TCP/IP and Ethernet Networking for Industry

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When you have completed study of this chapter you should be able to:

• Explain the difference between circuit switching and packet switching

• Explain the difference between connectionless and connection oriented

communication

• Explain the difference between a datagram service and a virtual circuit

• List the differences between local area networks, metropolitan area

networks, wide area networks and virtual private networks

• Describe the concept of layered communications model

• Describe the functions of each layer in the OSI reference model

• Indicate the structure and relevance of the ...