Chapter Summary

• Networking facilitates sharing of resources

• The MAC address is a unique physical address burned into the NIC

• The ISO developed the OSI Reference Model to standardize networking

• The layers of the OSI Reference Model are Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application

• The data encapsulation process involves 5 steps as the data travels down the OSI Reference Model.

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