Index 707Virtual Circuit, Internet2, 85
virtual private, 80
wide area, 77–80
Wi-Fi, 83
WiMAX, 74, 83
neural networks, 241, 244–5
in medicine, 245
uses of, 244
NeuroDimension, Inc., 244, 245
NeuroXL, 245
New York Stock Exchange, 89
NIBCO, vendor-managed inventory at, 187, 279–83
NIBCO’s “big bang,” an SAP implementation,
328, 468–83
Nielsen Norman Group, 214
Nokia, 68, 90, 248
nonprocedural languages. Seefourth generation
languages
non-technical skills, for effective IT project management, 413
Norfolk Southern Railway, the business intelligence
journey, 187–8, 294–9
normalization, of data, 98
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 228
Northrop Grumman Corporation, 572
Northwest Airlines, 89
notebook PC, 29. See alsomicrocomputers
Novell, 271
GroupWise, 210
NSF funding, 80
NSFNET, 80Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 35
Obama, Barack, My.BarackObama, 274
Object.Seeobject-oriented techniques.
Objectivity/DB, 53
object-oriented database architecture, 53
object-oriented programming (OOP), 49–51
object-oriented techniques, 341, 351.
core concepts, 351–3
defined, 351
encapsulation, 352
inheritance, 352
message passing, 352
object, defined, 351
use case diagram, 352–3
object program, 43
object-relational database architecture, 53
object technology, 52. See alsoobject-oriented techniques
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) regulations, 243
office automation, 206–9
defined, 206
electronic mail (e-mail), 208–9near-shore outsourcing, 557. See alsooutsourcing IT
NEC, 34
Nestlé Foods, 242, 261
Nestlé USA, 261
.NET, 100, 351
netbook, 29
Netezza Corporation, 53
data warehouse appliance, 204
TwinFin, 203
Netflix (www.netflix.com), 187, 263–5
Home Page, 265
Netscape Navigator, 254, 255
NetSuite, 206
NetWeaver platform from SAP, 199
network database architecture, 53
network interface card (NIC), 75
network layer, of OSI reference model, 87
network operating system (NOS). Seeserver
operating system
network protocols, 86–8
defined, 86
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference
Model, 86
OSI reference model, 86, 87–8
Systems Network Architecture (SNA), 86
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP), 88
Network Solutions, Inc., 254
network topologies, 70–2
bus topology, 70
complex, 71–2
mesh topology, 71
ring topology, 71
shared Ethernet topology, 73
star topology, 71
tree topology, 71
Wi-fi local area network, 74
networks/networking, 62–3See alsonetwork protocols,
network typologies, telecommunications networks
backbone, 60, 76–7
Blue Sky, 69
digital, 64
FordStar VSAT, 78
2G (second generation), 67
3G (third generation), 67
4G WiMAX wireless, 76
Juniper, 77, 90
overlay, 74
packet-switched, 79–80
peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, 588
plain old telephone service (POTS), 62
telecommunications, 60–92, 72, 90–1
value added, 79