When you send an email, visit a website, or participate in video conference, your computer sends data packets to the IP Address of the other end of the connection and receives packets destined for its own IP Address.
Internet Protocol addresses are a 32 bit long numbers made up of four octets, and each octet is normally described in decimal.
Each octet can be converted to binary.
IP addresses belong to the networks, not the devices attached to those networks numbers.
10.10.16.1
0000101 0.00001010.00010000.00000001.
The value in each octet ranges from 0 to 255 decimal, or 00000000– 11111111 binary.
