Network

Overview

Any time you allow two or more devices to share information, you create a network. These most often connect you to other networks, like the Internet, or you can do stuff to let one campus talk to another. You can think of a network sort of like electricity. You have outlets that you plug into that go to your breaker box, which goes to the power company. In a network, you have "data outlets" that connect to your computer and to switches and other network gear that connect to your Internet service provider.

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