Computer Networking and Internet 1
Computer Networking and Internet 1
NETWORKING AND
INTERNET
MEANING
2.Star network
A star network is an implementation of a spoke–hub distribution paradigm in
computer networks. In a star network, every host is connected to a central
hub. In its simplest form, one central hub acts as a conduit to transmit
messages. The star network is one of the most common computer network
topologies.
3.Tree network
4.Mesh networking
A mesh network is a local network topology in which the infrastructure
nodes connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically to as many other
nodes as possible and cooperate with one another to efficiently route data
from/to clients.
5.Ring network
A ring network is a network topology in which each node connects to exactly
two other nodes, forming a single continuous pathway for signals through
each node - a ring. Data travels from node to node, with each node along the
way handling every packet.
EXPERIMENT (2):-
Types and Uses of Computer Networking
● Every computer has the potential to communicate with any other computers of the
network.
● High degree of interconnection between computers.
● Easy physical connection of computers in a network.
● Inexpensive medium of data transmission.
Advantages of LAN:
➨The basic LAN implementation does not cost too much.
➨It is easy to control and manage the entire LAN as it is available in one small region.
➨The LAN configuration is very easy due to availability of required protocols in the
Operating System (OS) itself.
Disadvantages of LAN:
➨LAN covers small geographical area.
➨Security issues are big concern as it is easy to have access to programs and data of peers.
Special security measures are needed to stop unauthorized access.
➨It is difficult to setup and maintain LAN and requires skilled technicians and network
administrators.
Features of a PAN:
● Short-range communication.
● Low power consumption.
● Low cost.
● Small personal networks.
● Communication of devices within a personal space.
Advantages of PAN:
● No extra space requires
● Cost effective
● Connect to many devices at a time
● Easy to use
● reliable
Disadvatgaes of PAN:-
Advantages of MAN:-
● 1: Less Expensive: It is less expensive to attach MAN with WAN Network. ...
● 2: Sending Local Emails: ...
● 3: High Speed than WAN: ...
● 4: Sharing of the Internet: ...
● 5: Conversion of LAN to MAN is Easy: ...
● 6: High Security:
Disadvantages of MAN:
➨It is difficult to manage the network once it becomes large.
➨It is difficult to make the system secure from hackers and industrial espionage.
➨Network installation requires skilled technicians and network administrators. This
increases overall installation and management costs.
➨It requires more cables for connection from one place to the other compare to LAN.
WAN Features:
1.Network interfaces
A network bridge opeates at the data link layer (layer 2) of the OSI model and
connects and filters traffic between two network segments to form a single
network. This divides the network's collision domain but maintains a single
broadcast domain. Network segmentation through bridging breaks down a large,
congested network into an aggregation of smaller, more efficient networks.
4.Routers
A typical home or small office router showing the ADSL telephone line and Ethernet network
cable connections
A network switch is a device that forwards and frames of data between ports based
on the destination MAC address in each frame. [27] A switch is distinct from a hub
in that it only forwards the frames to the ports involved in the communication
whereas a hub forwards to all ports. A switch can be thought of as a multi-port
bridge.[28] A switch learns the association of physical ports to MAC addresses by
examining the source addresses of received frames. If an unknown destination
MAC is targeted, the switch broadcasts to all ports but the source. Switches
normally have numerous ports, facilitating a star topology for devices, and for
cascading additional switches.
EXPERIMENT-4:- Study about Internet
Service Provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or
participating in the Internet. Internet service providers can be organised in various forms, such as
commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.
Internet services typically provided by ISPs can include Internet access, Internet transit, domain name
registration, web hosting, Usenet service, and colocation.
An ISP typically serves as the access point or the gateway that provides a user, access to everything
available on the Internet.
Classifications
Access providers
Access provider ISPs provide Internet access, employing a range of technologies to
connect users to their network.[41] Available technologies have ranged from computer
modems with acoustic couplers to telephone lines, to television cable (CATV), Wi-Fi,
and fiber optics.
For users and small businesses, traditional options include copper wires to provide
dial-up, DSL, typically asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), cable modem or
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (typically basic rate interface). Using
fiber-optics to end users is called Fiber To The Home or similar names.Customers
with more demanding requirements (such as medium-to-large businesses, or other
ISPs) can use higher-speed DSL (such as single-pair high-speed digital subscriber
line), Ethernet, metropolitan Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet, Frame Relay, ISDN Primary
Rate Interface, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and synchronous optical
networking (SONET).
Mailbox providers
A mailbox provider is an organization that provides services for hosting electronic
mail domains with access to storage for mail boxes. It provides email servers to send,
receive, accept, and store email for end users or other organizations.Many mailbox
providers are also access providers, while others are not (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo! Mail,
Outlook.com, AOL Mail, Po box). The definition given in RFC 6650 covers email
hosting services, as well as the relevant department of companies, universities,
organizations, groups, and individuals that manage their mail servers themselves.
Hosting ISPs
Internet hosting services provide email, web-hosting, or online storage services.
Other services include virtual server, cloud services, or physical server operation.
Transit ISPs
Just as their customers pay them for Internet access, ISPs themselves pay upstream
ISPs for Internet access. An upstream ISP usually has a larger network than the
contracting ISP or is able to provide the contracting ISP with access to parts of the
Internet the contracting ISP by itself has no access to.In the simplest case, a single
connection is established to an upstream ISP and is used to transmit data to or from
areas of the Internet beyond the home network; this mode of interconnection is often
cascaded multiple times until reaching a tier 1 carrier. In reality, the situation is often
more complex.
Virtual ISPs
A virtual ISP (VISP) is an operation that purchases services from another ISP,
sometimes called a wholesale ISP in this context, which allow the VISP's customers to
access the Internet using services and infrastructure owned and operated by the
wholesale ISP. VISPs resemble mobile virtual network operators and competitive
local exchange carriers for voice communications.
Free ISPs
Free ISPs are Internet service providers that provide service free of charge. Many
free ISPs display advertisements while the user is connected; like commercial
television, in a sense they are selling the user's attention to the advertiser. Other free
ISPs, sometimes called freenets, are run on a nonprofit basis, usually with volunteer
staff.
Wireless ISP
A wireless Internet service provider (WISP) is an Internet service provider with a
network based on wireless networking. Technology may include commonplace Wi-Fi
wireless mesh networking, or proprietary equipment designed to operate over open
900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 4.9, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, and 5.8 GHz bands or licensed frequencies such
as 2.5 GHz (EBS/BRS), 3.65 GHz (NN) and in the UHF band (including the MMDS
frequency band) and LMDS.
meaning:-
A search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web searches
(Internet searches), which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way
for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results
are generally presented in a line of results, often referred to as search engine results
pages (SERPs). The information may be a mix of links to web pages, images, videos,
infographics, articles, research papers, and other types of files. Some search engines
also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories,
which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time
information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.
1. Google
Besides being the most popular search engine covering over 90% of the worldwide
market, Google boasts outstanding features that make it the best search engine in
the market. It boasts cutting-edge algorithms, easy-to-use interface, and
personalized user experience. The platform is renowned for continually updating
its search engine results and features to give users the best experience.
2. Bing
Microsoft’s Bing is the second-most renowned search engine in the world. And
although it trails Google by a broad margin in terms of market share, it boasts
some unique features that may excite users. For starters, the search engine filters
result in different tabs such as ads, images, maps, videos, and news.
3. Yahoo
Although it was once popular than and even went neck-to-neck with Google during its
early days, Yahoo has dropped to the third spot in terms of market share. Its web
portal is still popular, and it is said to be the eleventh most visited site according to
Alexa. Yahoo features an impressive interface, clean results and an impressive
catalog of websites.
4. Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu is a top-tier search engine that enjoys dominance in China.
The platform has been experiencing a steady increase in the number of users over the
years. And although it is mainly used in China, it still boasts an intuitive interface,
plenty of search options, and premium-quality search results.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents
designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.
Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and
render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a
web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the
document.
HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages. With HTML constructs,
images and other objects such as interactive forms may be embedded into the
rendered page. HTML provides a means to create structured documents by denoting
structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and
other items. HTML elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets.
Tags such as <img /> and <input /> directly introduce content into the page. Other
tags such as <p> surround and provide information about document text and may
include other tags as sub-elements. Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use
them to interpret the content of the page.
HTML can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript,
which affects the behavior and content of web pages. Inclusion of CSS defines the
look and layout of content. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former
maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS standards, has
encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since 1997.
The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag:
Open the Start Screen (the window symbol at the bottom left on your screen). Type
Notepad.
Windows 7 or earlier:
Also change some preferences to get the application to save files correctly. In Preferences >
Format > choose "Plain Text"
Then under "Open and Save", check the box that says "Display HTML files as HTML code
instead of formatted text".
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
</body>
</html>
Name the file "index.htm" and set the encoding to UTF-8 (which is the preferred
encoding for HTML files).
Step 4: View the HTML Page in Your Browser
Open the saved HTML file in your favorite browser (double click on the file, or right-
click - and choose "Open with").
A coaxial cable has an inner conductor that runs down the middle of the cable. The
conductor is surrounded by a layer of insulation which is then surrounded by another
conducting shield, which makes this type of cabling resistant to outside interference.
This type of cabling comes in two types – thinnet and thicknet. Both types have
maximum transmission speed of 10 Mbps. Coaxial cabling was previously used in
computer networks, but today are largely replaced by twisted-pair cabling (Photo
credit: Wikipedia)
Twisted-pair cabling
A twisted-pair cable has four pair of wires. These wires are twisted around each other
to reduce crosstalk and outside interference. This type of cabling is common in
current LANs.
Twisted-pair cabling can be used for telephone and network cabling. It comes in two
versions, UTP (Unshielded Twisted-Pair) and STP (Shielded Twisted-Pair). The
difference between these two is that an STP cable has an additional layer of
insulation that protects data from outside interferences.
A twisted-pair cable uses 8P8C connector, sometimes wrongly referred to as RJ45
connector.
Fiber-optic cabling
This type of cabling uses optical fibers to transmit data in the form of light signals.
The cables have strands of glass surrounded by a cladding material
This type of cabling can support greater cable lengths than any other cabling type (up
to a couple of miles). The cables are also immune to electromagnetic interference. As
you can see, this cabling method has many advantages over other methods but its
main drawback is that it is more expensive.
● Single-mode fiber (SMF) – uses only a single ray of light to carry data.
Used for larger distances.
● Multi-mode fiber (MMF) – uses multiple rays of light to carry data. Less
expensive than SMF.
● ST (Straight-tip connector)
● SC (Subscriber connector)
● FC (Fiber Channel)
● LC (Lucent Connector)
The attendee had a worksheet with a status code in column D that contains
should be blue, 3 yellow, 4 orange, and 5 red. He was also very specific about
Equal To…
3. In the Equal To dialog box, type a 1 in the left box. Open the dropdown and
4. The Format Cells dialog opens on the Font tab. You could use this tab to
change the color of the numbers in the cell. But to change the fill color of the
change based on the theme used for the document. For a reliable palette of
colors, click More Colors. This offers 163 colors, including many shades of
popular colors such as red, orange, yellow, blue, and green. But if none of
those colors are the exact right shade, you can use the Custom tab to choose
6. After choosing a color, click OK in each of the three open dialog boxes in
7. Repeat steps 2 through 6 for each of the four remaining colors, changing the
1. Guided Media:
It is also referred to as Wired or Bounded transmission media. Signals being
transmitted are directed and confined in a narrow pathway by using physical links.
Features:
● High Speed
● Secure
● Used for comparatively shorter distances
There are 3 major types of Guided Media:
● High Bandwidth
● Better noise Immunity
● Easy to install and expand
● Inexpensive
Disadvantages:
Disadvantages:
(v) Microstripline
In this, the conducting material is separated from the ground plane by a layer of
dielectric.
2. Unguided Media:
It is also referred to as Wireless or Unbounded transmission media.No physical
medium is required for the transmission of electromagnetic signals.
Features:
(i) Radiowaves –
These are easy to generate and can penetrate through buildings. The sending and
receiving antennas need not be aligned. Frequency Range:3KHz – 1GHz. AM and FM
radios and cordless phones use Radiowaves for transmission.
Further Categorized as (i) Terrestrial and (ii) Satellite.
(ii)Microwaves-
It is a line of sight transmission i.e. the sending and receiving antennas need to be
properly aligned with each other. The distance covered by the signal is directly
proportional to the height of the antenna. Frequency Range:1GHz – 300GHz. These
are majorly used for mobile phone communication and television distribution.
(iii) Infrared –
Infrared waves are used for very short distance communication. They cannot
penetrate through obstacles. This prevents interference between systems. Frequency
Range:300GHz – 400THz. It is used in TV remotes, wireless mouse, keyboard,
printer, etc.
2 Power Ground
3 One Wire Data
F-Type
The F connector is a type of RF connector commonly used for cable and universally
for satellite television. They are also used for the cable TV connection in DOCSIS
cable modems, usually with RG-6 tri-shield cable. The F connector is inexpensive, yet
has good performance up to 1 GHz. One reason for its low cost is that it uses the
center wire of the coaxial cable as the pin of the male connector. The male connector
body is typically crimped onto the exposed outer braid. Female connectors have a
3/8-32 thread. Most male connectors have a matching threaded connecting ring,
though push-on versions are also available.
ST (Straight Tip) and SC (Subscriber Connector or
Standard Connector)
Fiber network segments always require two fiber cables: one for transmitting data,
and one for receiving. Each end of a fiber cable is fitted with a plug that can be
inserted into a network adapter, hub, or switch. In the North America, most cables use
a square SC connector (Subscriber Connector or Standard Connector) that slides and
locks into place when inserted into a node or connected to another fiber cable,
Europeans use a round ST connector (Straight Tip) instead.
SC connector
ST connector
HTML Headings
HTML headings are titles or subtitles that you want to display on a
webpage.
Example
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
HTML Headings
HTML headings are defined with the <h1> to <h6> tags.
<h1> defines the most important heading. <h6> defines the least
important heading.
Example
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<h5>Heading 5</h5>
<h6>Heading 6</h6>
Note: Browsers automatically add some white space (a margin) before and
after a heading.
Bigger Headings
Each HTML heading has a default size. However, you can specify the
size for any heading with the style attribute, using the CSS font-
size property:
Example
HTML Exercises
Exercise:
Use the correct HTML tag to add a heading with the text "London".
<p>London is the capital city of England. It is the most
populous city in the United Kingdom, with a metropolitan
area of over 13 million inhabitants.</p>
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