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Introduction to Data
Communications
telegraph
PC revolution
Data communications over
Networking
phone lines (became
everywhere
common and mainframes
became multi-user systems)
NSFNet commercial
Originally called created as
ARPANET, the Internet access to
US Internet the Internet
began as a military-
academic network backbone begins
Data Communications =
Movement of computer information
by means of electrical or optical
transmission systems
convergence
Broadband Communications
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Components of a Local Area Network
To other networks
(e.g., Internet)
Router
Servers
File
HUB
Server
Web Client
Server Computers
Circuits
Print Printer
Server
Application Layer
set of utilities used by application programs
Presentation Layer
formats data for presentation to the user
provides data interfaces, data compression and
translation between different data formats
Session Layer
initiates, maintains and terminates each logical session
between sender and receiver
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7-Layer Model of OSI
Transport Layer
deals with end-to-end issues such as segmenting the
message for network transport, and maintaining the
logical connections between sender and receiver
Network Layer
responsible for making routing decisions
Data Link Layer
deals with message delineation, error control and
network medium access control
Physical Layer
defines how individual bits are formatted to be
transmitted through the network
Applications Applications
A receiving layer
wraps incoming
message with an
envelope A receiving layer
removes the
Adds layer
layer related
related
envelope and
addressing
forwards the
information
message up
Layer N Layer N
sender receiver
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Message Transmission Example