... IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) released a standards specification in 1980 called the 802 specification (named after the year and month it was conceived). The 802 standards provide the hardware specifications for networks. The IEEE standards range from 802.1, which is internetworking to 802.16, which denotes Wireless Broadband Networks IEEE (2002). . LANs are addressed in IEEE 802.3 ( ... advance in technology. The introduction of the Altair 8800 in 1975 had started the PC revolution Moschovitis et al (1999 p.67). The proprietary systems that had been developed by ...

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... office to be connected to a main office: Access Flexibility Extended Hours Conferencing Synchronization Internet/E-mail Access- Connections between a home computer and a computer in a main office will allow an employee to transfer documents from one location to another. Printers and other hardware peripherals can also be shared between systems. Flexibility- An employee with a home-connected network has an opportunity to adjust a ... through out the home network (Coyle, p. 58). Bluetooth (http://www.bluetooth.com/) and Linksys (http://www.linksys.com/) both offer wireless systems. For th...

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... available via a LAN, and then accessed from a PC connected to that LAN. The use of these packages generates major amounts of traffic on a network, which traditional LANs have trouble handling. Computer Capabilities : Major increases in processing power and storage capacity of personal computers now allow them to handle the increased graphics and sound that many packages provide. This has led to ... convert to existing networks. 4.2.3 Transmission speed increases Although the purchase of the above items gives a network the capability of communicating at 100Mbps, this may not be achievabl...

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... the work of a hub, except that it registers the IP addresses of the computers plugged into it and while a hub transfers packets to every computer on the network and a switch only transfers data to specific computers. When it receives a message, it only sends it to the intended recipient. ... a switch between the two networks. In this way, switches are good for migrating to faster network speeds without having to discard older legacy network hardware. In a telecommunications network, a switch is a device that channels incoming data from any of multiple input ports to the specific output...

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... registered the domain name "peachnet.edu" for use by our servers and others. The host names "mail" and "www" represent different servers registered in the same domain. A domain name is a computer name suffix shared by a group of computers in the same organization. A domain name should be associated with an IP address through a Forward Lookup record. Domain names are organized in a hierarchy ... data link layer over either fiber or twisted-pair cable. ATM differs from more common data link technologies like Ethernet in several ways. ATM does not involve routing for example. Hardware devi...

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