The Invisible Web: Networks and Hardware · Networks & Security

Data Packets and Protocols

Understanding how files are broken into packets and transmitted across the internet.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can a large video file travel across the world in seconds?
  2. 2What are the risks of data getting lost during transmission?
  3. 3Why do we need universal rules for how computers talk to each other?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9TDI6W02
Year: Year 5
Subject: Technologies
Unit: The Invisible Web: Networks and Hardware
Period: Networks & Security

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