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Information Systems I
Module 6
Telecommunications and Networks
Simon Fraser
simon.fraser@sta.uwi.edu
Objectives
By the end of this module you should be able to:
– describe the basic components of a
telecommunications system.
– evaluate transmission media.
– discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
various network topologies.
– discuss how telecommunication networks are
used in contemporary organizations.
– recommend general networking strategies.
What is Telecommunications?
• Communication of information by
electronic means
Metcalf’s Law
Components of a Telecomm System
• Communications software
Wireless
Hub
Checkpoint
Firewall
running
secure OS
Cisco
Router
Network running
Dell Servers IOS
Switch
running
Windows
2000 Server IBM AS400
or Linux Minicomputer
running OS 400
Personal Computers
running Windows XP
Pro, Mac OS X or Linux
Analog signal
• Continuous waveform
Twisted Pair
Coaxial
Speed, Distance and Cost
The Internet
The ARPANET in 1969
First Four Nodes
The Origins of the Internet
• The Internet started as a networking project funded by the US Department of
Defense's (DoD) Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA)
• A primary design goal was to allow users to share resources on remote computers.
Remember computers were very expensive and they were not too many of them
back in the 1960s.
• Legend has it that a secondary design goal was to build a reliable network capable
of operating in a hostile environment (war)
• The Internet went live with two nodes in 1969. Back then it was called the
ARPANET.
The Origins of the Internet
• The design goals led to a change in the way networks were
structured.
• Centralized • Distributed
Node B
Nod
Node A Node A
eB
Node C Node
C
Host
Node F
Node G Node E
Node E
Node H
Node D
Node D
Node I
TCP and IP (the dynamic duo)
• In addition to moving away from centralized
networks the DoD also needed to connect
many different types of computers.
• To do this the researchers came up with
several protocols.
• The two best known are TCP and IP.
TCP and IP (the dynamic duo)
• TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol.
• File • Packets
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Network Concepts
Packet Switching
TCP and IP (the dynamic duo)
• The Internet Protocol handles the
identification of nodes on the internet
(Clients, Servers, Routers) and the addressing
of packets.
• Each node has an IP address that looks
something like this 192.168.001.200.
• No two nodes have the same address.
TCP and IP (the dynamic duo)
• When TCP hands a packet off to IP, IP stamps each packet with
the source and destination address.
• They both point to an Amazon web server. You can type in the
domain name or the IP address in your web browser and they
will bring up the same page.
• Applications • Protocols
– Electronic Mail – POP and SMTP
– The WWW – HTTP and HTML
– File Transfer – FTP
– Mailing Lists
– Newsgroups
– Archie
– Veronica
– Gopher
The World Wide Web
• Along with email, the WWW is now the most
popular application on the Internet.
• Browsers • Servers
– Internet Explorer – Apache/Linux
– Netscape – IIS/Windows 200X
– Firefox Server
– Mozilla – Netscape/Solaris
– Opera
The World Wide Web
• The world wide web relies on HTTP and HTML.
– HTTP = Hypertext Transfer Protocol
– HTML = Hypertext Markup Language
The World Wide Web
• HTTP sets up communications between the web browser and the web server.
• When you type in a domain name the web browser uses the DNS system to find
the IP address of the web server. The browser then issues a get command.
• The server receives the get command and determines what resources ( web pages)
have been requested. One the requested resources are available the server sends
them back to the browser. It knows here to send them because it has the browsers
IP address.
• The browser gets the pages and writes them to your screen.
The World Wide Web
• HTML is the markup language used to format
web pages.
• HTTP consists of hundreds of TAGs that
control the appearance of text and images.
– <b>help</b>
– <u> me </u>
– <li>
– <body></body>
The World Wide Web
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The World Wide Web
• Hypertext - the magic of the web
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The World Wide Web
• Move over HTML here comes the new kid in
town XML.