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Communications
Tenth Edition
by William Stallings
140
Web browsing
100
Peer-to-peer
80 Streaming media
60
40
20
* Digital electronics
Emergence of High-Speed LANs
Personal computers and microcomputer
workstations have become an essential tool for
office workers
Explosive growth of
speed and
computing power of
Two significant personal computers
trends altered
the LANs have been
requirements recognized as a
of the LAN viable and
essential
computing
platform
More data is transported off premises and into the wide area
Digital Electronics
The rapid conversion of consumer electronics
to digital technology is having an impact on
both the Internet and corporate intranets
Image and video traffic carried by networks is
dramatically increasing
• Because of their huge storage capacity digital versatile
disks (DVDs) are being incorporated into Web sites
• Digital camcorders have made it easier to make digital
video files to be placed on corporate and Internet Web
sites
Convergence
The merger of previously
distinct telephony and Layers:
information technologies and
markets
Applications
Involves:
Enterprise services
• Moving voice into a These are seen
data infrastructure by the end users Infrastructure
Services the
• Integrating all the voice information
and data networks Communication
network supplies links available to
inside a user to support
organization into a the enterprise
single data network applications
infrastructure
• Then extending that
into the wireless arena
Foundation is packet-
based transmission
using the Internet
Protocol (IP)
Increases the function
and scope of both the
infrastructure and the
application base
SourceSystem Destination System
Trans-
Trans- Destination
Source mission Receiver
mitter
System
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Trans- Destination
Source mission Receiver
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Voice Data
Image Video
Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Typically
consist of a number of
interconnected switching nodes
Wide Area Networks
Alternative technologies used include:
Circuit switching
Packet switching
Frame relay
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Circuit Switching
Uses a dedicated communications path
Connected sequence of physical links
between nodes
Logical channel dedicated on each link
Rapid transmission
The most common example of circuit
switching is the telephone network
Packet Switching
Data are sent out in a sequence of small
chunks called packets
Packets are passed from node to node
along a path leading from source to
destination
Packet-switching networks are commonly
used for terminal-to-terminal computer and
computer-to-computer communications
Frame Relay
Local Area
Network Router
Router
Router
Residential
subscribers
Backbone Backbone
ISP ISP
Regional
ISP
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Server
ISP Web
farm
LAN Regional
switch ISP
Regional
ISP
Server
Server
Corporate
LAN open circle = NAP
filled circle = POP
Enterprise
network
(main campus) Enterprise
network
(branch)
IP
backbone
Public cellular
network
Residential Wi-Fi
Ethernet LAN network
Networking
icons:
Core Edge/aggregate Router Router with Ethernet ATM Wi-Fi access
router router firewall switch switch point
Figure 1.7 A Networking Configuration
Summary