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IP Addressing Explained (and a little history too)

What are IP addresses and how are they used? Let’s go through a high level overview and a little of history since their inception. […]

Bandwidth or Throughput? What are they? What Should you look for?

Bandwidth and Throughput! There is a lot of confusion about these terms, what they mean, what you should care for.

Let’s try some definition first, and then let’s go into the details.

From the electrical perspective, Bandwidth is the max amount of frequency a cable can support without signal degradation. In the networking field, […]

The Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model

Transmission protocols are designed to work in collaboration at various levels.

For example, there are those protocols that provide transportation capability, thus identifying where the destination of a piece of data is located and routing it appropriately to it. Then there are other protocols that oversee the information sent across the Internet and make sure […]