TCP/IP and OSI compared

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1. Standards and protocols
2. Network standards
3. Functions of standards and protocols
4. The OSI model
5. The TCP/IP model
6. TCP/IP and OSI compared
7. Application and transport protocols
8. Internet and network access protocols
9. Encapsulation and decapsulation
10. Configuring and testing a network