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Computer Networking

The TCP/IP Model

This will be a brief presentation of the TCP/IP Model.The information about the different layers’ functions can be found in my previous article on the OSI model. What is the TCP/IP Model? Just like the OSI model, it is a conceptual model.It also references a set of protocols that makes communications between computers possible.This is […]

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Computer Networking

History of OSI and TCP/IP Models

Why did we need Standardized Protocols? Before the 1980s, there was no standardized networking protocols, each vendor had their own protocols. So if you had, for example, an IBM computer, your computer wouldn’t have been able to communicate with a DEC computer because they were both using different networking protocols. The Creation of the OSI […]