ITM 703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Computer Hardware, Web Api, Token Ring

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 703
• Professor: Farid Shirazi

Document Summary

Informaion and communicaion technology (ict) comprises both goods and services. It includes also manufacturing of computer hardware & sotware. Ict by its nature is a diverse set of tools & protocols & services for the sake of comm, increased producion, process eiciency and more: hardware. Parallel processing: grid compuing, cloud compuing: sotware. System sw: os microsot, linux, unix, macos. Applicaion sw: web api: browser, word processing, database, analyics: staisical tools such as spss, custom design app: engineering autocad, protocols. Ict protocols are designed to set up guidelines for common comm. Languages: http, ftp, dns, nntp (network news transfer protocol), tcp, udp, ip. Cabling system and topologies: token ring ieee 802. 5. Signaling protocols: services: integrated tools, protocols, hw & sw. It governance is a organizaional body to oversee the integraion of technology (ict), ppl (diverse global reach), policies (rules, regulaions, principles) for conducing a biz. It gov includes major stakeholders that share common interests & goals: managers, employees, suppliers, major customers.