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Introduction to IP

Addressing
Lesson 1: Basic understanding of IP addresses and their purpose
Why is IP Addressing important?

 IP Addressing is essential for data delivery


 Real life analogy: Sending a letter
Could you Imagine sending a physical letter to your friend without knowing his address?
Of course not! The importance of IP addresses is the same as the importance of home
addresses. Network communication would be impossible without this concept.
Data communication

 This type of communication is occurring at the Network Layer (Also called Host-to-Host
communication)
 A host is a computer or a device that is taking part in the communication
 When two distant hosts want to communicate with each other, usually the link is
established through the Internet, which means the data might pass through several
other networks before reaching the destination
 To ensure that the data is delivered where it was supposed to, we needed a global
addressing scheme – which was latter known as IP Addressing
Types of IP Addresses

 Two main types of IP addresses:


 IPv4
 IPv6

 IPv4 Addresses have the length of 32 bits, which makes a total of addresses (around 4
Billion)
 IPv6 Addresses are 128 bits in length, which is way more addresses than the previous
version ( = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 Addresses)

 The World is running out of IPv4 Addresses and we are transitioning to IPv6, which will
become dominant in the near future
Thank you for your time!

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questions in the Q&A Section of the course.
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