Chapter 06: Computer Networks & CC

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“digital hub (center of our universe) is moving

from PC to cloud” Steve Jobs

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 Principles

• Effective communications are essential

to organizational success
• Communications technology allows more
communication channels
• The Internet provides a wide range of
services for communication
• Internet and the World Wide Web are
becoming more universally used and
accepted – management, service and
speed, privacy and security issues must be
continually addressed and resolved
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 What Are computer Networks?

A collection of computing MTN

mobile networkVodacom
Cell C
and other hardware global ISP AT&T

components interconnected
Verizon

by communication channels
that allow sharing of home
network
resources and information regional ISP
Internet Solutions
RSAweb
Afrihost
Webafrica

Internet: “network of institutional

networks” Eduroam
network

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 Telecommunications

• Telecommunications is “The electronic transmission of signals

for communications” can be on telephone, PC, radio, TV etc
• Reduces the barriers of time and distance
• How does it work?

• Telecoms devices relay

(send and switch)
signals between
systems and
transmission media
(phone lines, cables,
optical fibers, wireless
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Key components (devices) of a computer
network

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Networks

• A Computer network consists of communications media

(wired and wireless), devices (modems, switches, PCs etc),
and software (Network Operating System, Network
Management Software) needed to connect systems or
devices
• The computers & devices on networks are called network
nodes
• Nodes can share data, information, and processing jobs
• Organizations can use networks to share resources such as
hardware, programs, and databases
• Networks enable geographically separated workgroups to
share information
• Networks offer a search capability
• Networks facilitate Communication
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 Network Types

• Personal Area Network (PAN)

• Local Area Network (LAN)
• Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) Missing link

• Wide Area Network (WAN)

• International networks
• Mesh networking (all connected)
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Storage Area Network (SAN)

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 Distributed Processing
Client/Server Systems
• Centralized Processing – all processing occurs at one location
• Distributed (decentralized) processing – processing occurs
at various locations
• Client/server architecture computers called servers are
dedicated to special functions
• An application server holds the programs and data files for a
particular application (eg SAP)
• An e-mail server sends and receives e-mails
• A web server sends out web pages
• Each server is accessible by all computers on the network
• Servers can be computers of all sizes
• A client is any computer that sends messages requesting
services from the servers on the network
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 The WWW

• WWW is an application of the Internet – collection of tens of

thousands of computers
• WWW is an information space where documents and web
resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators
(URLs), URL protocols include hypertext links (Http & Https),
and are accessible via the Internet
• Browser is an application used to access and view websites
(Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera) 
• WWW uses Client/server model
• The documents it connects are most of the time are websites
• Search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) help
search the web
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 Internet of things
A world-wide network of interconnected
objects uniquely addressable, based on
standard communication protocol
Internet
refrigerator
Web-enabled toaster +
weather forecaster

Tweet-a-watt:
Animals linked to Internet
monitor energy use

IP picture frame
http://www.ceiva.com/ Slingbox: watch,
control cable TV remotely Internet phones

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 Cloud Computing
Ever-present Fitting in well with a person's
needs, activities, and plans As soon as,
or whenever
“Cloud computing is a model for enabling required

ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network

access to a shared pool of configurable
Adjustable,
computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, Customizable,
storage, applications and services) that can be Rearrangable
rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
management effort or service provider interaction“
(Mell & Grance, 2011)
Provided or
Supplied
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Deployment = procedure of introducing an activity, process, program or system
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Service Models

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Pizza as a Service

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 That’s it for today

» As always – find your little quiz online!

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