DATA ON THE MOVE: TRACING THE TRANSFORMATIONS & ENCODING
OF DATA ACROSS A NETWORK
From the point of input through a keyboard to the point of storage on a remote FTP server, the data we transfer across the home or office local area network (LAN) and the internet is transformed, encoded, labelled, transmitted and decoded through various methods to ensure security, efficiency and reliability. This paper will trace the transformations taken by the data packets outlining each step and explaining how each is relevant to the entire process. …
