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Exploring Modern Business Data Communications Trends

Discover the evolving landscape of business data communications including benefits of networking, technology trends, and management strategies. Learn about key technology advancements, internet infrastructure, network types, information transmission, and communication standards. Get insights into the critical role of networking in today's corporate structures and the impact of data communication trends on businesses.

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Exploring Modern Business Data Communications Trends

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  1. Chapter 1: Introduction Business Data Communications, 4e

  2. Information & Communication • Networking is critical to the new corporate structures emerging in today’s businesses • Benefits of good networks • make geographically dispersed companies more manageable • help top-heavy companies trim down middle management • help companies break down barriers between divisions.

  3. Trends Driving Data Communication • Traffic growth • Voice & data; local and long distance • Development of new services • In turn drives increased traffic • Advances in technology • Encourage and support increased growth and development

  4. Key Technology Trends • Faster and cheaper computing and communications • Increasingly “intelligent” networks • Growing importance of Internet, intranet and extranet applications • Increasing use of and dependence on mobile technology

  5. Business Drivers

  6. Applications Services Management Infrastructure Convergence

  7. Business Information Requirements • Voice communications • Data communications • Image communications • Video communications

  8. The Internet & Distributed Applications • Key infrastructure for supporting distributed applications • Internet, including intranets and extranets • TCP/IP protocol suite • Distributed applications • Client-Server Architectures and Intranets

  9. Network Types • Wide Area Networks • Circuit Switched • Packet Switched • Frame Relay • ATM • Local Area Networks (LANs) • Wireless Networks • Metropolitan Area Networks

  10. Transmission of Information • Transmission and transmission media • e.g. twisted pair, fiber, wireless, coax • Communication Techniques • encoding, interface, protocols • Transmission efficiency • multiplexing, compression

  11. Management Issues • Network Security • Network Management

  12. Communications Standards • Importance • Process • Organizations

  13. Resources • Web Sites • Usenet Newsgroups • Journals • Business-oriented • Technical

  14. Telecommunication • Uses electricity to transmit messages • Speed of electricity dramatically extends reach • Sound waves: ~670 mph • Electricity: ~186,000 (speed of light) • Bandwidth= information-carrying capacity of a channel

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