Digital Networks essentials

Learn through hands-on experience how data flows through the internet, your phone and the IP protocols that support all online communications.

What you’ll learn

  • How to analyze the properties of a service and determine its network needs
  • The essentials of network architectures, mechanisms (flow control, error and loss correction, delay management, etc.), protocol stacks and more
  • All about the IP, TCP and UDP Internet protocols and their properties (quality of service, congestion management, etc.)
  • The right way to develop an addressing plan for an organization, choose an appropriate routing algorithm and configure the routing
  • How to use a network analyzer (Wireshark, in this case)
  • Reading and interpreting the contents of a frame captured on a network
  • How to read and understand a data or telecom network standard

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