0% found this document useful (0 votes)
29 views

Data Comms

The document provides a history of data communications technologies including the telegraph, telephone, early computers, and the development of the Internet from ARPANET in the 1960s. It also summarizes common network topologies like star, bus, mesh and categories of networks including PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN. Key protocols and standards such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are mentioned.
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
0% found this document useful (0 votes)
29 views

Data Comms

The document provides a history of data communications technologies including the telegraph, telephone, early computers, and the development of the Internet from ARPANET in the 1960s. It also summarizes common network topologies like star, bus, mesh and categories of networks including PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN. Key protocols and standards such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are mentioned.
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

DATA COMMS UNICODE Star

History - Most popular code in the - Every node is connected to a


Telegraph world central controller (eg:
- Tele = Distance - ASCII Hub/Switch)
- Graph = Write Uses 7 bits to represent - Advantages
- To write at a distance character Less expensive
- Samuel Morse - UTF-8 Very fast
- 1844 Most popular code under Robustness
- What God Had Wrought UNICODE Fault isolation is easy
- Telephone Uses 8 bit Easy installation
- Tele = Distance - Disadvantages
- Phone = Speak Picture > Pixel If the hub/switch is down, the
- To speak at a distance Audio > whole net work is down
- Alexander Grahambell Video > Audio + Pixer
- Thomas Watson Bus
- 1876 Protocol - Every node is connected to a
- Hello - Syntax main cable called
ENIAC Structure/format of a data Backbone via links and
- Electronic Numerical - Semantics taps
Integrator And Computer Meaning of bits - Advantages
- Great Brain (Interpretation) Very easy installation
- First General Purpose - Timing - Advantages
Computer How fast and when If the backbone breaks the
- John Mauchly & J Presper - Standard network is down
Eckert Agreed upon rules
- 1946 Categories of Network
UNIVAC Fundamental Characteristics of a PAN/WPAN
- Universal Automatic Data-Communications System - Personal Area Network
Computer - Wireless Personal Area
- First commercially electronic Delivery Network
computer - System must deliver to the - USB, Bluetooth, Zigbee
- John Mauchly correct destination - 10m inside a room
- 1951 Accuracy LAN/WLAN
Cellphone - The data should be the - Local Area Network
- Run on cellular signal needed representation of the - Wireless Local Area Network
- Martin Cooper message - Covers at least 2 miles of
- 1973 Timelines network
Smartphone - The data should be the MAN
- Cellphone with internet needed representation of the - Metropolitan Area Network
capability message - Covers an entire town or city
- Simon Personal Computer Jitter - DSLL, Wi-MAX, LTE
- IBM - Variation of the packet WAN
- 1992 arrival time - Coverage of a country,
iPhone country or a world
- 2007 Topology - WWW
Android Mesh - World Wide Web
- Android Inc - Each nodes are connected - Switched WAN
- Andy Robin to each other via dedcated o Backbone that
- 2003 link connects the
- 2005 (Google) - Advantages enterprise router and
Fault isolation is easy lever 3 switches
Message Very fast connection - Point-to-Point WAN
Text/Number If the link is down, it doesnt o Connects LAN to the
- Encoding affect the network WAN via ISP
- Representing characters into Privacy/security
specialized format - Disadvantages
- Expensive
History of Internet - Smart device
- Extends to D
1967 - concept of interconnection
(ARPANET) Switch - Multi port bridge
Advanced Research Project
Agency Network
1967 ARPANET became a reality
Hardware - IMP (Interface
Message Processor)
Software NCP (Network
Control Protocol)

Charley Kline

802.3 - Wired LAN


802.11 - WLAN-WiFi
802.15 - WPAN
802.11ac Gigabit WiFi
2.46GHz/5GHz
802.11ah 900MhZ
- Low Power

Fathers of Internet
Vint Cerf
Bob Khan

De Jure - Approved by
standardization bodies
De Facto Not yet approved but are
already being used by certain
companies
Encapsulation - the data portion of a
packet from level N-` carries the
whole packet from level N
Decapsulation - done in the receiver
Physical Layer bits
- Physical characteristics of the
medium
- Representation of bits
- Data route
- Synchronization of bits
- Line confiugration
- Topology
- Transmission mode

Data Link
- Frame
- Framing, physical addressing,
flow control, error control
- Access control

Network layer
- Packet
- Routing
- IP addressing

Bridge
- 2 Port Device

You might also like