Overview of Networks

• Purpose of Networks

  • To make connections between machines

  • Converged networks combine multiple types of traffic like data, video, and voice

  • We expect 99.999% availability or uptime(The 5 9's)

    • Only 5 minutes downtime per year

• Network Traffic Examples

  • File sharing

  • Video calling

  • Surfing the Web

  • Social Media

  • Streaming video

  • E-mail

  • Messaging

  • VoIP