Internetworking

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This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the realm of digital communication. It begins with the physical layer, detailing optical and electrical cabling technologies alongside wireless communication methods. The data link layer introduces local area networks (LANs) and popular technologies such as Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM, as well as wireless LAN options like IEEE 802.x, Bluetooth, and ZigBee. A variety of wide area network (WAN) technologies are also explored, including high-speed options like PDH, SDH, WiMAX, and LTE. Routing technologies are discussed to complete the data link layer overview. Moving to the Internet layer, the book covers the Internet Protocol (IP), which creates a virtual uniform network from diverse networks. Both IPv4 and its successor, IPv6, are examined in detail, along with ICMP, NDP, and Mobile IP. The transport layer is addressed next, focusing on protocols that provide reliable, connection-oriented transport services over the inherently unreliable IP. Key protocols like TCP and UDP are introduced, along with NAT (Network Address Translation) and security protocols such as SSL and TLS. Finally, the application layer is explored, detailing popular Internet application protocols including DNS, SMTP, PGP, (S)FTP, NFS, SSH, DHCP, SNMP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, and the World Wide Web.