Typical workstation environment

11/18/98

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Typical workstation environment

Digital Convergence

Intra and intercomapny networking

Communications Hardware

Variety of modems

Communications Hardware

Communications Channel

Tyranny of Numbers

Fiber optic cable

Portable satellite communications

Notebook linked to LAN

Satellite Data Transmission

Data Transmission Path

Common Carriers

Teleconferencing

Network Topologies

Client/Server Computing

Client-server computing

Manufacturing control room

Corporate global computing

Network Line Control

Asynchronous and synchronous data transmission

Local Area Networks

NASA communications satellite

Wireless PC card

Benefits of workgroup computing

Author: Jim Allert

Email: jallert@d.umn.edu

Home Page: http://www.d.umn.edu/~jallert