OPU-1
UNIVERSAL POWER-LINE CARRIER SYSTEM TYPE OPU-1
GENERAL DESCRIPTION - Rev 7 (May 2019)
66/67
FIGURE 17
Classes of IP addresses
In IP addresses, it is possible to use the bits devoted to the host number to create
subnetworks, justifying the existence of subnet masks, which are used to identify the
network number and the host number of an IP address and have the same format (32 bits).
Given an IP address and a subnet mask, by performing an AND logical operation between
them both, the part of the IP address that corresponds to the network is determined, and
also the part that corresponds to the host, as shown in FIGURE 18.
FIGURE 18
IP address and subnet mask