Chapter 1: Business Networks

and Telecommunications
Part1
 Objectives

• Describe business and home applications of digital telecommunications

• Identify the major media and devices used in telecommunications
• Explain the concept of protocols
• Compare and contrast various networking and Internet services
• List networking technologies and trends that are likely to have an impact on
businesses and information management in the near future
• Discuss the pros and cons of telecommuting
 Telecommunications in Business

• Telecommunications: transmittal of data and

information
• Allows communications over large distances
• Network technologies bring about several improvements
to business process
 Practice on Conversion
(Convert and Explain Your Answer)
1. 512MB = _____ GB
2. 2048KB = _____MB
3. 128 bits = _____word/s
4. 16,384 bits = _____qword
5. 16 bits = ____ nibble
 Telecommunications in Business (continued)
• Advantages of telecommunications
• Better business communication
• Geographical distance irrelevant
• Greater efficiency
• Information becomes immediately available
• Better distribution of data
• Instant transactions
• Flexible and mobile workforce
• Alternative channels
 Telecommunications in Daily Use: Mobile
Phones
• American term of “cellular phone” is derived from areas of service called
cells
• Use computerized transceiver
• Transmits and receives signals
• Transmit and receive calls almost anywhere
• Other uses
• E-mail and faxing
• GPS
• Digital cameras
• Major advantage is mobility
 Videoconferencing
• Videoconferencing: transmitted images and speech
• Brings conference rooms thousands of miles apart
together
• Save on multiple costs
• Travel
• Lodging
• Time
 Fax
• Fax: Transmission and reception of images over
telephone line
• Fax machine digitizes image and transmits
representative bits to other fax machine
• Can be sent through Internet
• Uses special software
 Wireless Payments and Warehousing
• Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology enables
quick transactions and payments
• Used in gas stations and wireless toll plazas
• Facilitates payments
• Used in warehouses
• Check availability
• Locate items to be picked up and stored
 Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
• Peer-to-Peer file sharing: locate and download files
from online computer through Internet
• Exchange music and video files
• Raises many issues with copyright violation
• BitTorrent: Download segments of files from multiple
sources
 Web-Empowered Commerce
• Increasingly fast communication allows businesses options
• Research
• Market
• Educate
• Train
• Shop
• Entire industries created by Web
• Online exchanges and auctions
 Bandwidth and Media

• Bandwidth: speed at which data are communicated

• Bits per second: unit of measure for bandwidth
• Baseband: carry only one transmission at a time
• Broadband: carry multiple transmissions simultaneously