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Refers to the method used to convert information into an electrical signal
A computer that operates on data by measuring changes in continuous physical variables such as voltage, resistance, and rotation. Contrast with Digital Computer. |
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| communication speed and capacity of telecommunication networks. |
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Short Range Wireless Technology that is rapidly being built into computers and other devices
It operates at about 1 MB per second and has an effective range of 100 meters |
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The predominant information architecture of enterprise-wide computing.
End user PC clients are interconnected by servers |
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| use microwave radio as their telecommunications medium. |
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| A computer that operates on digital data by performing arithmetic and logical operations on the data. Contrast with Analog Computer. |
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| Network links that use internet technologies that connect to the Intranet of a business with the intranets' with its customers suppliers and other business partners |
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| Cables consisting of one or more hair thin filaments of glass fiber wrapped in a protective jacket |
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| ISP Internet Service Provider |
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| A company that provides access to the internet to individuals and organizations. |
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| the network inside an organization that uses internet technologies (such as web browsers, servers, TCP/IP, network proocols, html, hypermedia document publishing, and databases,) to provide an internet like environment within the enterprise for information sharing, collaboration, and the support of business processes |
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| The older, traditional, mainframe-based business information systems of an organization. |
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Local Area Network
A communications network that typically connects computers, terminals, and other computerized devices within a limited physical area such as an office, building, manufacturing plant, or other worksite. |
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| An interconnected system of computers, terminals, and communications channels and devices. |
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| Information systems that use common standards for hardware, software, applications, networking. |
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| exchange of any information of any form over networks |
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Voice over internet protocol
Technology allows a person to function as if he/she were directly connected to a regular telephone network. |
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| Telecommunications networks covering a large geographical area WAN |
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| Using radio or infrared transmissions to link devices in a local area network. |
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