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Class 02 (Esp500)

The document provides information about convergence in telecommunications and information technology: - It discusses how telecoms and IT are converging, with examples of networks like PAN, LAN, CAN, MAN, and WAN. - Two experts are summarized - Peter Wilson discusses how countries are globally connected in various ways, and bandwidth costs have decreased. Jenny Lane discusses how Moore's law has proven accurate with billions of transistors now on a single chip and large data storage capacities. - A third expert, Sanjay Ravi, talks about how software is increasingly accessed as a service online rather than purchased and stored locally on hardware.

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Class 02 (Esp500)

The document provides information about convergence in telecommunications and information technology: - It discusses how telecoms and IT are converging, with examples of networks like PAN, LAN, CAN, MAN, and WAN. - Two experts are summarized - Peter Wilson discusses how countries are globally connected in various ways, and bandwidth costs have decreased. Jenny Lane discusses how Moore's law has proven accurate with billions of transistors now on a single chip and large data storage capacities. - A third expert, Sanjay Ravi, talks about how software is increasingly accessed as a service online rather than purchased and stored locally on hardware.

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ESP English for Technologies

ESP

UNIT 1
Convergence in Telecoms and IT
Warm up
• What do you remember about last class?
• In simple words, what is convergence? Can you give examples of it?
ESP
[the act of converge]

Converge: to tend to a common result.


to come together
ESP

Class 2
Convergence and connectivity
Objective
Describe the difference and convergence of Telecoms and IT.
ESP

ti v it y
nn ec
c o
ESP
ESP
Work in pairs!
• Create a simple definition for:
a) PAN
b) LAN
c) CAN
d) MAN
e) WAN
• What is the difference between bandwidth and broadband?
ESP
ESP The world is now plugged in,
and countries are connected
all over the world, allowing
companies to manage and
up using a mixture of communicate with their
terrestrial networks, undersea operations wherever they may
cables, satellite and be.
microwave communications, A reason for this has been
Wi-Max and Wi-Fi, GSM and the fall in bandwidth costs,
3G. The move from packet- and broadband is getting
based services to the internet cheaper and cheaper. Services
Peter protocol means everyone can now deliver tens or even
expects to communicate hundreds of megabits of
Wilson voice, data and video from bandwidth into individual
anywhere, globally. The homes for much less money
availability of wide area data than a 64Kb line that a whole
services such as MPLS and factory might have used to
Ethernet have spread run its operation only a few
years ago.
ESP

According to Peter Wilson:

1. most countries are connected up with undersea cables. false


2. many countries have unreliable mobile phone networks. false
3. recently bandwidth costs have risen dramatically. false
ESP
In 1965 Gordon Moore stated there has been a significant
that the number of transistors decrease in the size and
on a chip would double about power consumption of
every two years. And that has hardware and finally
more or less remained true manufacturing costs are
since then. As we write, a falling significantly. The result
single chip can hold about 1 is that there are more and
billion transistors each making more powerful computers in
Jenny 3 billion binary calculations our lives, and even handheld
Lane per second. devices can store gigabytes of
There has been a huge data holding thousands of
increase in the volume of data MP3 music files or hundred of
and data storage capacity films.
required for this; secondly,
ESP

According to Jenny Lane:

1. Moore’s predictions have been fairly accurate. true


2. a typical chip can now hold 3 billion transistors. false
3. both data storage capacity and power consumption have gone up. false
ESP The internet is changing the We have seen the impact
way we access, buy and use of off-shoring and the rise of
applications. We go online and India as the world centre of
download the software we software development and
want onto our computer, like application management. We
any other digital product. are also seeing some of the
Increasingly we don’t even smartest applications and
have the software on our services coming out of
hardware, but visit an internet people’s bedrooms; more and
Sanjay site and use that application more experts are producing
Ravi as a service. The use of this Open source software, which
Software as a Service (Saas) is becoming more and more
model means that we may not popular, creating a real threat
need such powerful to big corporations.
computers in the future.
ESP

According to Sanjay Ravi:

1. fewer people are going to computer stores to buy software. true


2. SaaS will require ordinary users to have more powerful computers. false
3. software development needs the support of a big corporation to succeed. false
ESP

Match the words on the left with the ones on the right to make pairs of words
that often go together.

1. access a. chip, wafer, valley


2. download b. an application, a network, an account
3. go c. online, offline, on holiday
4. mobile d. phone, telephony, broadband
5. silicon e. a file, an image, a demo version
ESP
Complete the sentences using pairs of words from the previous exercise. Make
any changes that are necessary.

1. Everyone has mobile phones, so payphones are becoming redundant.

2. Many internet entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley in California are now turning their attention
to alternative forms of energy.

3. Before you buy the program, you can download a demo just to see how you like it.

4. With a mobile broadband connection, you can go online anytime and anywhere.

5. Internet banking allows users to access their accounts and check their balances.

6. How many transistors can you fit onto a silicon chip?


ESP

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