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Data Communication & Computer Network
Data communications refers to the transmission of this digital data between two or more computers
and a computer network or data network is a telecommunications network that allows computers to
exchange data. The physical connection between networked computing devices is established using
either cable media or wireless media. The best-known computer network is the Internet.
This tutorial should teach you basics of Data Communication and Computer Network (DCN) and will
also take you through various advance concepts related to Data Communication and Computer
Network.
Why to Learn Data Communication & Computer Network?
Network Basic Understanding
A system of interconnected computers and computerized peripherals such as printers is called
computer network. This interconnection among computers facilitates information sharing among
them. Computers may connect to each other by either wired or wireless media.
Network Engineering
Networking engineering is a complicated task, which involves software, firmware, chip level
engineering, hardware, and electric pulses. To ease network engineering, the whole networking
concept is divided into multiple layers. Each layer is involved in some particular task and is
independent of all other layers. But as a whole, almost all networking tasks depend on all of these
layers. Layers share data between them and they depend on each other only to take input and send
output.
Internet
A network of networks is called an internetwork, or simply the internet. It is the largest network in
existence on this planet.The internet hugely connects all WANs and it can have connection to LANs
and Home networks. Internet uses TCP/IP protocol suite and uses IP as its addressing protocol.
Present day, Internet is widely implemented using IPv4. Because of shortage of address spaces, it is
gradually migrating from IPv4 to IPv6.
Internet enables its users to share and access enormous amount of information worldwide. It uses
WWW, FTP, email services, audio and video streaming etc. At huge level, internet works on Client-
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Internet uses very high speed backbone of fiber optics. To inter-connect various continents, fibers are
laid under sea known to us as submarine communication cable.
Applications of Communication & Computer Network
Computer systems and peripherals are connected to form a network.They provide numerous
advantages:
Resource sharing such as printers and storage devices
Exchange of information by means of e-Mails and FTP
Information sharing by using Web or Internet
Interaction with other users using dynamic web pages
IP phones
Video conferences
Parallel computing
Instant messaging
Audience
This tutorial has been prepared for the computer science graduates to help them understand the
basic to advanced concepts related to Data Communication and Computer Networking. After
completing this tutorial you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in Data Communication
and Computer Networking from where you can take yourself to next levels.
