Managing Information Technology

78 Part I • Information Technology also available, in which the organization pays a monthly fee for (typically) unlimited long-d ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 79 line into two types of communication channels. The B, or bearer, channel transm ...

80 Part I • Information Technology serve a limited audience and other networks like the Internet that are available to anyone or ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 81 TABLE 3.4 Internet Applications Name of Application Purpose of Application Elec ...

82 Part I • Information Technology images, photographs, sound bytes, and full motion video can be displayed on the user’s screen ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 83 office machine to the Internet. This differential in upload and download speed ...

84 Part I • Information Technology estimated that about 20 percent of households in the United States have no way to obtain broa ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 85 Some commentators have referred to the Internet as the “information superhighwa ...

86 Part I • Information Technology Application Layer Presentation Layer Session Layer Transport Layer Network Layer Data Link La ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 87 (^5) These applications and others will be described in Chapters 5 through 7. c ...

88 Part I • Information Technology communication channel. Electrical engineers work at this level, with typical design issues in ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 89 used by travel agencies, but in the 1990s the airlines and online travel compan ...

90 Part I • Information Technology almost as critical for a parts clerk at a Honda dealership in Oregon dealing with a disgruntl ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 91 Summary The telecommunications and networking area has existed for considerably ...

92 Part I • Information Technology LAN LEO URL WAN FTP ISDN RFID IM SONET DSL VPN VoIP Review Questions 1.What are the primary r ...

Chapter 3 • Telecommunications and Networking 93 Bibliography Ante, Spencer E. 2009. “WiMAX: The signal flickers.” Business Week ...

One Touch Systems. 2010. “Case study: Ford motor company.” One Touch Systems Web site, http://www.onetouch.com/pdf/ current/Ford ...

95 This is the concluding chapter of Part I of this book, which has been devoted to information technology. The previous two cha ...

96 Part I • Information Technology Why Manage Data? One way to view the importance of managing the data resource is to consider ...

Chapter 4 • The Data Resource 97 Customer Submits Order Includes Product FIGURE 4.1 Entity-Relationship Diagram accessible to th ...