Click to edit Master subtitle style INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Week 4 v 3.0

NETWORK COMPUTING

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Course Outline till mid

Week Topic

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Course Outline and Objective, Computer foundations, Basic Concepts and Definitions about Information Technology, Computer, Kinds of computers, Input Devices, Output Devices How computers actually work, Data Representation, Memory, Storage, Processors, Computer Software, Operating Software, Application Software Strategic use of IT in the digital economy Network computing, Telecommunication, Types of Networks, Internet and the WWW (World Wide Web), Email and other things on the internet E-business, E-commerce and its types, Social Media, Impact of Internet on businesses Wireless and pervasive computing Database Management, how websites and databases can be combined to give enormous power to businesses Microsoft Excel

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Evolution of applications1

Evolution of commercial applications of internet

Presence (emphasis on human review) E-commerce (emphasis on revenue and expansion) Collaboration (emphasis on profit) Integration (emphasis on capability and services)

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Infrastructure1
Intranet
Network designed to serve the internal

informational needs of a company. Network confined to an organization (not geographically) for its internal use
Extranet
Connects the intranets of different

organizations Allows secure communication among business partners over the Internet
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Internet Application Categories1

Discovery
Involves browsing and information

retrieval

Communication
Fast and inexpensive communication

channels

Collaboration
Mutual efforts by two or more

individuals who perform activities in order to accomplish certain tasks

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Discovery

Software agents: Computer programs that carry

out a set of routine computer tasks on behalf of the user and in doing so employ some sort of knowledge of the users goal Those exhibiting intelligent behavior and learning are called Intelligent agents

Search

engine: Uses computer generated (and

computer maintained) index of millions of web pages and uses that index to find pages that match a set keywords Directory: Manually compiled, hierarchically organized collection of links to web pages Portal: Web based personalized gateway to 5/22/12

Communication
E-mail Instant messaging Internet phones Video conferencing Radio Whiteboards Chat rooms

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Networks and their benefits2

A

system of interconnected computers, telephones, or other communication devices that can communicate with one another and share applications and data
Sharing of peripheral devices Sharing of programs and data Better communication Security of information

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Access to databases

Types of networks2
Wide Area Network (WAN) Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) Local Area Network (LAN) Home Area Network (HAN) Personal Area Network (PAN) Home Automation Network

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TCP/IP3
Transmission

Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Breaks data into small sized packets IP address uniquely identifies every computer and device connected to the internet Written in the form of a dotted quad
203.212.27.5

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IP Address3
Written

in the form of a dotted quad

203.212.27.5 Number range from 0-255

Dynamic IP addresses Static IP addresses

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Communication

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URL3
Unique

address of every website/webpage

http://www.gartner.com/technology/ab out.jsp Protocol Domain name Directory/path File name with extension
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URL3
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol Communication rules that allow

browsers to connect with web servers

Domain

Name

A location on the internet Easy to remember names for IP

addresses

File
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extensions

html, htm, php, jsp, asp, aspx,

E-mail
Electronic mail Can use from a

program in your

computer Can use from a website Require a unique e-mail address for communication Method of exchanging digital messages
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Clients
An

email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent (MUA), is a computer program used to manage email
MS-Outlook Thunderbird Eudora IBM Lotus Notes MS-Entourage

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Opera Mail

Sending E-mails
Messages

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are exchanged between hosts using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) SMTP is an Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks An e-mail client requires the name or the IP address of an SMTP server as part of its configuration

Receiving E-mails
POP

(Post Office Protocol ) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both

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Receiving E-mails
IMAP

and POP are protocols used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection
POP deletes e-mail form server after

downloading IMAP leaves e-mail on server after downloading User explicitly deletes email while using IMAP 5/22/12 Security less

SMTP
Mail

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servers and other mail transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages User-level client mail applications typically only use SMTP for sending messages to a mail server for relaying SMTP is the most reliable protocol for receiving email. POP3 downloading of email is mostly

Webmail
Webmail

(or Web-based e-mail) is an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through a desktop e-mail client
Access from around the world Cant access old messages Security of data Access of data

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No offline mode (with a few exceptions)

Things on Internet
Web E-mail FTP Instant Messaging Telnet and many more

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References
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2. 3.

Information Technology for Management: Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy Turban, McLean, Wetherbe, 4th Edition, Chapter 4 Using Information Technology Williams, Sawyer, 8th Edition, Chapter 6 Using Information Technology Williams, Sawyer, 8th Edition, Chapter 2

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