Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Tenth Edition
by William Stallings
CHAPTER 1
Technological Advancement
Driving Forces
Notable Trends
Trend toward faster and Today’s networks are more
cheaper, in both computing and “intelligent”
communication • Differing levels of quality of service
• More powerful computers supporting (QoS)
more demanding applications • Variety of customizable services in the
• The increasing use of optical fiber and areas of network management and
high-speed wireless has brought security
transmission prices down and greatly
increased capacity
Changes in Networking
Technology
* Digital electronics
Digital Electronics
The rapid conversion of consumer electronics
to digital technology is having an impact on
both the Internet and corporate intranets
Image and video traffic carried by networks is
dramatically increasing
• Because of their huge storage capacity digital versatile
disks (DVDs) are being incorporated into Web sites
• Digital camcorders have made it easier to make digital
video files to be placed on corporate and Internet Web
sites
Convergence
The merger of previously
distinct telephony and Layers:
information technologies and
markets Applications
Involves:
Enterprise services
• Moving voice into a These are seen
data infrastructure by the end users Infrastructure
Services the
• Integrating all the voice information
and data networks Communication
network supplies links available to
inside a user to support
organization into a the enterprise
single data network applications
infrastructure
• Then extending that
into the wireless arena
Foundation is packet-
based transmission
using the Internet
Protocol (IP)
Increases the function
and scope of both the
infrastructure and the
application base
Table 1.1
Communications Tasks
Transmission Lines
Capacity
The basic building block of
any communications facility
is the transmission line
Reliability
Transmission Mediums
Two mediums currently driving
the evolution of data communications
transmission are:
Transmission Services
Remain the most costly component of a
communications budget
Two major approaches to greater efficiency:
Networks
It is estimated that by 2016 there will be
over 20 billion fixed and mobile networked
devices
This affects traffic volume in a number of
ways:
• It enables a user to be continuously consuming
network capacity
• Capacity can be consumed on multiple devices
simultaneously
• Different broadband devices enable different
applications which may have greater traffic
generation capability
Networking
Advances in technology have led to greatly
increased capacity and the concept of
integration, allowing equipment and
networks to work simultaneously
Voice Data
Image Video
Circuit Switching
Uses a dedicated communications path
Connected sequence of physical links
between nodes
Logical channel dedicated on each link
Rapid transmission
The most common example of circuit
switching is the telephone network
Packet Switching
Data are sent out in a sequence of small
chunks called packets
Packets are passed from node to node
along a path leading from source to
destination
Packet-switching networks are commonly
used for terminal-to-terminal computer and
computer-to-computer communications
Frame Relay
The Internet
Table 1.2
Internet Terminology
Central Office (CO) Network Access Point (NAP)
The place where telephone One of several major Internet
companies terminate customer interconnection points that
lines and locate switching serve to tie all the ISPs together
equipment to interconnect those Network Service Provider
lines with other networks
(NSP)
Customer Premises A company that provides
Equipment (CPE) backbone services to an
Telecommunications equipment Internet service provider (ISP)
that is located on the customer’s Point of Presence (POP)
premises
A site that has a collection of
Internet Service Provider (ISP) telecommunications equipment,
A company that provides other usually refers to ISP or
companies or individuals with telephone company sites
access to, or presence on, the
Internet
Summary