CHAPTER SUMMARY
This chapter introduced you to computer networks, terminology, and some of the key Solaris commands. You learned basic terms such as host, network, protocol, and bandwidth. In the network classification section, you learned that networks can be classified based on geographical area, modulation technique, and network topology. In the geographic area classification, a network may be a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN). When networks are classified based on modulation technique, they are either baseband networks or broadband networks. On the basis of topology, networks are laid out in either bus, star, or ring topologies.
You also were introduced to the OSI model, which is a seven-layer network protocol model. ...
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