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computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a
collection of hardware components and computers interconnected
by communications channels that allow sharing of resources and
information. Networks may be classified according to a wide
variety of characteristics such as the medium used to transport
the data, communications protocol used, scale, topology, and
organizational scope. The rules and data formats for exchanging
information in a computer network are defined by communications
protocols. Well-known communications protocols are Ethernet, a
hardware and Link Layer standard that is ubiquitous in local
area networks, and the Internet Protocol Suite, which defines a
set of protocols for internetworking, i.e. for data
communication between multiple networks, as well as host-to-host
data transfer, and application-specific data transmission
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