The Online is a international system of interconnected laptop or computer networks that use the common Online protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, despite the fact that not all protocols use TCP) to serve billions of customers worldwide. This kind of switched backbone is shown graphically in Figure 8.7. This has the benefit of putting all network gear in one particular location for simple maintenance and upgrade, but it does need far more cable. Most backbone topologies are, for that reason, initially designed primarily based on monetary constraints, such as user population density, or application needs and WAN service availability.

Translating protocols typically demands a lot more processing than encapsulation, so encapsulation can improve overall performance if the backbone devices are the bottleneck. This figure implies that the LAN switches are close to the computer systems in their LANs and farther from the backbone switch. This image is of the NSFNET … Continue reading >>>