CHAPTER 7

Network Addressing

In this chapter, you will learn about

• Network Layer protocols

• IP addresses

• Types of IP addresses you’re likely to encounter

• How to assign IP addresses to networked devices

• Naming services

Until now, you’ve learned mostly about LAN technologies—those that operate at Layer 2 of the OSI model, the Data Link Layer. Understanding these technologies is foundational for networked AV systems because a lot of networked AV data never leaves the LAN. In fact, as you learned in Chapter 6, it isn’t even possible to route many AV-specific protocols over a wide area network (WAN). Does that mean you don’t need to care about Layers 3 and above? It does not.

Even AV devices that are on their own LAN are connected to a ...

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