Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Kwajalein
Monitor Station
Hawaii
Monitor Station
Ascension Island Diego Garcia
Monitor Station Monitor Station
These stations are the eyes and ears of GPS,
monitoring satellites as they pass overhead by
measuring distances to them every 1.5 seconds
Fiber Optic
Connections
POP
POP POP
Imagine that Company B is a corporate ISP.
Company B builds large buildings in major
cities and corporations locate their Internet
server machines in these buildings.
Company B is such a large company that it runs
its own fiber optic lines between its buildings
so that they are all interconnected.
Cable/DSL Router
Wireless Router
Industrial Router
A router has two separate, but related, jobs:
216.27.61.137
11011000.00011011.00111101.10001001
It can be shown that there are a possible of
4,294,967,296 unique IP address values!
Dest: B Jaime
I like Message les
rabbits
Philospher
lapins
Fax # --
Fax # -- Message L: Dutch
L: Dutch for the remote Secretary Dest: B
Dest: B
Ik hou secretary Ik hou
Van
Van
konijnen
konijnen
Fax Fax
This communication architecture has three
layers, at each end of the communication link.
4 H4 M H4 M
Layers
3 H3 H4 M1 H3 M2 H3 H4 M1 H3 M2
2 H2 H3 H4 M1 T2 H2 H3 M2 T2 H2 H3 H4 M1 T2 H2 H3 M2 T2
1
Source Destination
Host Host
Protocols used in internet communications
constitute a four layer protocol stack.
TCP/IP
Application
Host
to
Network
This is the layer that actually interacts with the
operating system or application whenever the
user chooses to transfer files, read messages
or perform other network-related activities.
Typical applications: email, ftp, www, etc.
This layer also takes converts data into a
standard format that the other layers can
understand.
And this layer establishes, maintains and ends
communication with the receiving device.
This layer maintains flow control of data and
provides for error checking and recovery of
data between the devices.