Business Driven Technology
Business Driven Technology
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ISBN: 9781259567322
Author: Paige Baltzan Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Internet:

Internet is the interconnection of smaller networks around the world.

  • Using internet can establish a communication among computers that belong to the same protocols.
  • It is used to connect the computers, and they can share all kind of information.
  • There are three ways to connect home computers to the network such as phone modem, a digital subscriber line, and cable modem.
  • It is the common telecommunication infrastructure, and it provides individual users secured access to their organization’s (private) network.
  • The categories of network are:
    • Local Area Network(LAN)
    • Wide Area Network(WAN)
    • Metropolitan Area Network(MAN)

World Wide Web:

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a space where the documents and resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators that are interlinked and accessed through the Internet. It is governed by Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. It is comprised of files and folders.

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