Thought this might be of interest to people on the list About the CourseYou
pick up your iPhone while waiting in line at a coffee shop. You google a
not-so-famous actor, get linked to a Wikipedia entry listing his recent
movies and popular YouTube clips of several of them. You check out user
reviews on Amazon and pick one, download that movie on BitTorrent or
stream that in Netflix. But suddenly the WiFi logo on your phone is gone
and you're on 3G. Video quality starts to degrade, but you don't know
if it's the server getting crowded or the Internet is congested
somewhere. In any case, it costs you $10 per Gigabyte, and you decide to
stop watching the movie, and instead multitask between sending tweets
and calling your friend on Skype, while songs stream from iCloud to your
phone. You're happy with the call quality, but get a little irritated
when you see there're no new followers on Twitter. You may wonder how
they all kind of work, and why sometimes they don't. Take a look at the
list of 20 questions below. Each question is selected not just for its
relevance to our daily lives, but also for the core concepts in the
field of networking illustrated by its answers. This course is about
formulating and answering some of these 20 questions. JW |
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