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What is Physical Layer & The Function of Physical Layer
The physical layer is the lowest layer of the OSI model. This layer controls the way unstructured, raw, bit -stream data…
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Retrospective on Ethernet
Ethernet is a set of technologies and protocols that are used primarily in LANs. It was first standardized in the…
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Thick Ethernet vs thin Ethernet
Thick Ethernet Thick Ethernet was the first commercially available form of cabling supported by Ethernet. It is technically known as…
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Switched Ethernet vs. Classic Ethernet
Ethernet is a set of technologies and protocols that are used primarily in LANs. It was first standardized in 1980s…
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Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
EGP is a protocol used to exchange data between gateway hosts that are neighbors with each other within autonomous systems.…
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Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
RIP is used in both LAN and WAN Networks. It also runs on the Application layer of the OSI model. The…
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Distance Vector Routing Protocol (DVR)
Distance Vector Protocols advertise their routing table to every directly connected neighbor at specific time intervals using lots of bandwidths…
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What is Routing Protocols?
Routing Protocols are the set of defined rules used by the routers to communicate between source & destination. They do not…
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Sliding Window Protocol
Sliding window protocols are data link layer protocols for reliable and sequential delivery of data frames. The sliding window is…
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Sublayers of Data Link Layer
Data Link Layer has two sublayers, Logical Link Control (LLC):This is the uppermost sub-layer, LLC consists of protocols running at…
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Classification of Modems
Modem word came from the combination of two words modulator and demodulator. A modem is a hardware device that enables…
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Types of Modems
• Modems can be of several types and they can be categorized in a number of ways. • Categorization is…
