ADM 2372 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Air Canada, Warchalking, Wi-Fi

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2372
• Professor: Zikun Zhang

Document Summary

Continued development of smartphones and tablets are one of the main driving forces of the need for bigger and faster services. Telecommunications systems: enable the transmission of data over public or private networks. Network: a communications, data exchange, and resource-sharing system created by linking two or more computers and establishing standards, or protocols, so that they can work together. Telecommunications and networks are historically inefficient and complicated. Businesses are opting for network infrastructure to allow greater choice in how they market. Two main benefits: ability to communicate, ability to share. Wide area network (wan): spans a large geographic area, such as state, province, country: connect multiple smaller networks. Metropolitan area network (man): a large computer network usually spanning a city. Wireless internet service provider (wisp): an isp that allows subscribers to connect to a server at designated hotspots or access points using a wireless connection: offer access to the internet from anywhere in the zone of coverage.