MB115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Network Interface Controller, Network Architecture, Handshaking
2 Jun 2017
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Digital convergence the gradual merger of computing and communications into a new information environment, in which the same information is exchanged among many kinds of equipment, using the language of computers. Modems modulate (convert) a computer"s digital data to analog, transmit it, then demodulate (reconvert) it back to digital data for the receiving computer. Network system of interconnected computers, telephones, and/or other communications devices that can communicate with one another and share applications and data. Share peripheral devices such as printers, scanners, disk drives. Security of information, because of improved backup systems. Wide area network (wan): communications network that covers a wide geographic area, such as a country or the world. Metropolitan area network (man): communications network covering a city or a suburb. Local area network (lan): connects computers and devices in a limited geographic area, such as one office, one building, or a group of buildings close together.
