DataCommunicationsandNetworking-.pptVIP

COMP2330 Computer Science Data Communications and Networking Chapter 1 Data Communications, Data Networks, and the Internet Reading: Book Chapter 1 Data and Computer Communications, 8th edition By William Stallings Outline Section 1: Data Communications and Networking for Today’s Enterprise Section 2: A Communications Model Section 3: Data Communications Section 4: Networks Section 5: The Internet Summary: Key Points Appendix: History of Communications Section 1 What are the trends? Three forces are driving the evolution of data communications and networking Growth of communication traffic Voice traffic telephone Data traffic Internet access, video conferencing Challenges (to the network service providers): how to maximize the capacity and minimize the cost? Development of new services Refer to the figure on the next page Advances in technology Faster and cheaper computing and communications Networks are more intelligent: quality of service (QoS) Internet, Web, intranets, extranets, etc. Pervasive computing/ubiquitous computing Case Studies: What networking services do we use today? Phone service (mainly for voice) Internet service (mainly for data) Example of Mobile Phone Service: THREE.com .hk/website/template?pageid=35200lang=chi Example of Broadband Internet Access: HKBN .hk/bb1000/offer_no_contract.html Questions Why mobile phone service is charged based on time (i.e., number of minutes)? why Internet access service is charged based on the data rate (i.e., number of MB/s)? How is our life without Internet? Time: Dec. 26, 2006 Event: An earthquake at Taiwan Consequence: 香港《新报》28日头条报道称，台湾大地震除了在当地造成伤亡，亦令互联网世界出现前所未有的大灾难。多条经台湾传送互联网数据的海底电缆在地震中受破坏，由于台湾是香港以至东南亚互联网用户接驳至外地的主要“出口”，电缆受损令香港等多个地区的互联网一度“与世隔绝”，香港网民未能登入外国网站，电邮服务亦几乎全部中断，长途电话及国际漫游服务同受影响。 (Cont.) 华声报旧金山消息： 12月26日台湾的一场强震不仅给台湾百姓造成了严重的损失，也给在美华人带来了程度不同的经济影响。由于地震毁掉了6条海底电缆，导致中美之间的网络中断，南加华商生意遭受挫折抱怨连连。 Case 1: 　　吴老板说，“在美国雇一个员工的钱在中国可以雇10个，网上销售为我带来了无限商机。”可是26日他突然发现上不去网了。 　　“网络销售占本公司全部销售额的一半，如果要两个星期才能修复海底光缆的话，仅网上eBay销售