Week 6 Network +

 The importance of port numbers is what helps all technicians and computers to be able to communicate with specific applications. In short when we want to communicate some form of data to a known address we still have to decide where the data is destined to be received. Port numbers are used to delegate the way data is received to your device. These ports have a set number system already in place to tell the computer if it will be send to things like a server on the internet, FTP, or a mail server using smtp. These port have to be labeled in a way that communication can be universal. So certain port numbers are known to be specific types of location applications also known as well known port numbers. The larger the port number tells your computer if it is a registered number or dynamically assigned port number for a LAN device.