What is networking?

- [Instructor] This course is all about designing … a networking strategy for using Microsoft Azure. … So what exactly does the term networking mean … in the context of Microsoft Azure? … Let's start by defining some terms. … Put simply, networking is the method … by which computer systems can talk to each other. … In modern computing with the TCP protocol … two computers talk to each other … by sending a series of messages, called packets, … that contain data over the network. … The network itself does some of the work … ensuring the messages make it to their intended destination. … Every device on the network has an address … called the internet protocol, or IP address. … Some addresses are valid outside of the network, … those are called public IP addresses, … and some addresses don't make any sense … outside of the network, that's called a private IP address. … There are two main standards for IP addressing … known as IP v4 and IP v6. … The IP v4 address base has long been said to be full. …