After completing this course, you will have learned the following.
• Why and how statistical multiplexing, also known as overbooking, oversubscription and bandwidth on demand, can be implemented, along with its benefits.
• What a router is plus how it connects data links to implement the network.
• What a private network is.
• How routers can act as a control point for traffic, called packet filtering.
• How packets are moved by routers between broadcast domains, including VLANs.
• A routing table's basic structure and contents.
• The Customer Edge.
• The types of IPv4 address blocks including Class A, B and C, and dotted-decimal notation.
• Why and how DHCP is used to assign both static addresses and dynamic addresses.
• Why, how and where public addresses and private addresses are used.
• How Network Address Translation interfaces public address domains with private address domains.
• The changes and improvements between IPv4 and IPv6.
• The IPv6 address types, how IPv6 addresses are first allocated to ISPs and then assigned to users, and why this means that each residence receives 18 billion billion IPv6 addresses.