Unit 2 - Section 12 - Transfer of data in ICT systems
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- Transfer of data in ICT systems
- What is an ICT network?
- WAN: Wide Area Network
- LAN: Local Area Network
- MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
- Networks are made up of many different computing devices
- Advantages
- Sharing of resources
- Communication
- Characteristics of a network
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Client-server network
- Use of communication technologies
- The internet
- A large group of interconnected computers around the world that allow the sending and retrieval of information from one computer to another
- The World Wide Web
- A collection of multimedia resources accessible via the internet.
- The internet
- Standards
- De facto standard
- A standard that has become popular so is most commonly used.
- De jure standard
- Legally binding industry standards that all manufacturers have to agree to.
- De facto standard
- Protocols
- A set of known rules that govern the communications between computers on a network
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
- A protocol to manage the assembly and reassembly of data into packets transmitted between computers over the internet
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- A protocol which directs data from one computer to another.
- What is an ICT network?
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