Discovering Computers: Chapter 09

Discovering
Computers 2012
Your Interactive Guide
to the Digital World

Objectives Overview

Discuss the purpose of the
List advantages of using a
components required for
Describe the uses of network, and differentiate
successful communications
computer communications among LANs, MANs, and
and identify various sending
WANs
and receiving devices

Differentiate between
client/server and peer-to- Differentiate among a star Describe the various
peer networks, and network, bus network, and network communications
describe how a P2P ring network standards
network works

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for Detailed Objectives

Objectives Overview

Describe various types
Explain the purpose of Describe commonly
of lines for
communications used communications
communications over
software devices
the telephone network

Discuss different ways Describe various
to set up a home physical and wireless
network transmission media

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for Detailed Objectives

Communications

• Computer communications describes a process in
which two or more computers or devices transfer
data, instructions, and information

Communications
Sending device Receiving device
channel

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Communications

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Figure 9-1

Uses of Computer Communications

Blogs Chat rooms E-mail Fax

Instant
FTP Internet Newsgroups
messaging

Video
RSS VoIP Web
conferencing

Web 2.0 Web folders Wikis



• Users can send and receive wireless messages
using wireless messaging services

Figure 9-3


Text messaging (SMS) allows users to send and receive short
text messages on a phone or other mobile device or computer

Picture messaging allows users to send pictures and sound files

Video messaging allows users to send short video clips

Wireless instant messaging allows wireless users to exchange
real-time messages with one or more other users

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• Wireless Internet access points allow people to connect
wirelessly to the Internet from home, work, school, and
in many public locations

Figure 9-4


• A cybercafé is a coffeehouse, restaurant, or other
location that provides personal computers with
Internet access to its customers

Figure 9-5


• A global positioning system (GPS) is a navigation system
that consists of one or more earth-based receivers that
accept and analyze signals sent by satellites in order to
determine the GPS receiver’s geographic location
• GPS receivers are:

Built into Available as a
Available with
many mobile handheld
new vehicles
devices device



Figure 9-6


Groupware Voice mail

• Helps groups of people work • Allows someone to leave a
together on projects and voice message for one or
share information over a more people
network • Computer in voice mail
• Component of workgroup system converts an analog
computing voice message into digital
• Major feature is group form
scheduling • A voice mailbox is a storage
location on a hard disk in the
voice mail system



• Many programs provide a means to collaborate, or work
online, with other users connected to a server
• Collaboration software includes tools that enable users to
share documents via online meetings and communicate
with other connected users

Document
Online Web
management
meetings conferences
systems



Figure 9-7


• Web services enable
programmers to create
applications that
communicate with other
remote computers over
the Internet or on an
internal business network
• A mashup is a Web
application that combines
services from two or
more sources

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Networks

• A network is a collection of computers and
devices connected together via communications
devices and transmission media
• Advantages of a network include:
Facilitating Sharing Sharing data
communications hardware and information

Sharing Transferring
software funds


Networks

Figure 9-9

Networks

• A local area network
(LAN) is a network that
connects computers
and devices in a limited
geographical area
• A wireless LAN (WLAN)
is a LAN that uses no
physical wires

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Networks

• A metropolitan area network (MAN) connects
LANs in a metropolitan area
• A wide area network (WAN)
is a network that covers a
large geographical area

Figure 9-12

Networks

• The design of computers, devices, and media on a
network is sometimes called the network architecture
Client/server network Peer-to-peer network

Figures 9-13 – 9-14

Networks

• P2P describes an Internet network on which users
access each other’s hard disks and exchange files
directly over the Internet

Figure 9-15

Networks

• A network topology refers to the layout of the computers
and devices in a communications network

Star network Bus network Ring network

Figures 9-16 – 9-18

Networks

An intranet is an An extranet allows
internal network customers or
that uses Internet suppliers to access
technologies part of its intranet


Network Communications Standards

Token
Ethernet TCP/IP Wi-Fi
ring

Bluetooth UWB IrDA RFID

WiMAX WAP



Ethernet is a network standard that specifies no computer
controls when data can be transmitted

The token ring standard specifies that computers and
devices on the network share or pass a special signal (token)

TCP/IP is a network standard that defines how messages are
routed from one end of a network to another



Figure 9-19


• Wi-Fi identifies any
network based on the
802.11 standard that
facilitates wireless
communication
• Sometimes referred to
as wireless Ethernet

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Figure 9-20


• Bluetooth defines how two Bluetooth devices use short-
range radio waves to transmit data
• UWB (ultra-wideband) specifies how two UWB devices use
short-range radio waves to communicate at high speeds
• IrDA transmits data wirelessly via infrared (IR) light waves
• RFID uses radio signals to communicate with a tag placed in
or attached to an object, animal, or person



Figure 9-21


Wireless Application
WiMAX (802.16)
Protocol (WAP)
• Developed by IEEE • Specifies how some mobile
• Towers can cover a 30-mile devices can display the
radius content of Internet services
• Two types are fixed • Web
wireless and mobile • E-mail
wireless • Chat rooms
• Provides wireless • Uses a client/server
broadband Internet access network


Communications Software

• Communications software consists of programs
that:
Manage the
Help users establish a
transmission of
connection to another
data, instructions, and
computer or network
information

Provide an interface
for users to
communicate with
one another


Communications Over
the Telephone Network
• The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is
the worldwide telephone system

Figure 9-23

Communications Over

Dial-up Dedicated
ISDN line
lines line

T-carrier
DSL FTTP
line

ATM

Communications Over

Figure 9-24

Communications Over
• ADSL connections transmit data downstream at a
much faster rate than upstream

Figure 9-25

Communications Devices

• A communications device is any type of hardware
capable of transmitting data, instructions, and
information between a sending device and a
receiving device
• A dial-up modem converts signals between analog
and digital



• A digital modem sends and receives data and
information to and from a digital line

DSL Cable
modem modem



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Figures 9-26 – 9-27


• A wireless modem uses the cell phone network to
connect to the Internet wirelessly from a
notebook computer, a smart phone, or other
mobile device

Figure 9-28


• A network card enables
a computer or device to
access a network
• Available in a variety of
styles
• Wireless network cards
often have an antenna

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Figure 9-29


• A wireless access point is a central communications
device that allows computers and devices to transfer data
wirelessly among themselves or to a wired network

Figure 9-30


• A router connects
multiple computers or
other routers together
and transmits data to its
correct destination on a
network
• Many are protected by
a hardware firewall

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Figure 9-31


• A hub or switch connects several devices in a
network together

Figure 9-32

Home Networks

• Home networks provide computers with the
following capabilities:

Connect to the Share a single high- Access files and
Internet at the speed Internet programs on other Share peripherals
same time connection computers

Connect game
Play multiplayer Subscribe to and
consoles to the
games use VoIP
Internet


Home Networks

• Types of wired home networks:

Ethernet Powerline cable

Phoneline


Home Networks

Figure 9-33

Communications Channel
• The amount of data that
can travel over a
communications channel
sometimes is called the
bandwidth
• Latency is the time it takes a
signal to travel from one
location to another on a
network
• Transmission media carries
one or more signals
• Broadband media transmit
multiple signals
simultaneously

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Figure 9-34

Physical Transmission Media

Figure 9-35

Physical Transmission Media
Twisted-pair cable

Fiber-optic cable

Coaxial cable

Figures 9-36 – 9-38

Wireless Transmission Media

Figure 9-39


• Cellular radio is a form of broadcast radio that is
used widely for mobile communications

Figure 9-40


• Microwaves are radio waves that provide a high-
speed signal transmission

Figure 9-41


• A communications
satellite is a space
station that receives
microwave signals from
an earth-based
station, amplifies it, and
broadcasts the signal
over a wide area

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Figure 9-42

Summary

Overview of
How to join
communications
computers into a
terminology and
network
applications

Various
communications
devices, media, and
procedures

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