Chapter 1. Networking Basics

What You Will Learn

On completing this chapter, you will be able to:

This chapter discusses the concept of a network—what it is and what it's made of, including its physical and nonphysical (logical) pieces and—uses common transportation networks, such as trains and subways, to illustrate these concepts.

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