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How you're using networking every day

How you're using networking every day

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How you're using networking every day

- Think about your day and see if you can identify some of the different roles played by networks. Here's some of the first things that come to my mind. Instead of having a cable TV, I've got a Hulu subscription. That lets me watch live TV, I can record with a cloud-based DVR, I can view tons of other content on Hulu, and that's possible because the different TVs in my home, they connect to my home network, using a wired or wireless connection, and my home network, that connects out to the internet. But besides just watching TV, there's tons of other things that I can do online. I'm a big YouTube watcher, and I occasionally, I scroll through Facebook, Instagram, I'll have audio or video calls with my family or clients, who might be around the world. I can do that using Skype. Additionally, one of the big buzzwords you're going to be hearing in the networking world is the internet of things, or IOT. Now, IOT, it's all about…

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