up:: [[Computing MOC]] tags:: #note/develop # Network Standards - Sets of technical requirements and specs that define the rules of communication in computer networks - Allows things to communicate even if they have different hardware, like a switch communicating with a PC - Main ones are defined by IEEE - Main one is Ethernet - Family of standards - 802.3 standard - Defines both physical aspects and how data should be formatted into messages to be sent over the network --- > [!createdat] Created at: [[2025-11-07]]