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Professor Flows on the colourful streets of Byte City

IT lessons you can actually picture.

Networking lessons to help absorb data networking in "byte" sizes, taught in Byte City by Professor Flows.

How a lesson works

The question

The question

A real outage. A question worth answering.

Byte City

Byte City

Step inside the city and see how it works.

The real thing

The real thing

A real terminal or screen you can use on Monday.

Frames from the lesson Hub, Switch, Router.

Start here

Your next stop in the city starts here.

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OSI Model

Ping Works, Names Don't: DNS and the Application Layer | OSI Layer 7

The storefront, the mail room and the Yellow Pages, where every conversation begins.

8:07 Watch
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"Your Connection Is Not Private": TLS and Encoding | OSI Layer 6

The packing room: the label printer, the vacuum sealer and the lock on door 443.

8:11 Watch
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OSI Model

Why VoIP Calls Drop at 32 Seconds: The Session Layer | OSI Layer 5

The delivery window, and the phone call that hangs up at thirty-two seconds.

8:17 Watch
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Ping Works, Page Won't Load: Ports, TCP and UDP | OSI Layer 4

Numbered doors, the truck that calls ahead and the bullhorn that doesn't.

9:32 Watch

The map

Seven floors. One click. Follow a request through the house and out across Byte City.

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