Network and Telecommunications

I am going to talk about the topic of network and telecommunications.

1. A telecommunications network is any arrangement where

• a sender transmit a message
• to a receiver
• over a channel
• consisting of some sort of medium

2. Network components alternatives

Network component alternatives consist of network, media, processors, software, channel and topology.



3.Telecommunication Processors

The most common type of communication processors is modems.

• converts a digital signal to an analog frequency 
• transmitted over phone lines
• then back into digital signal

Types of Communication networks

• Local Area Network (LAN)
• Wide Area Network (WAN)
• Virtual Private
• Client/Network
• Peer-to-Peer

                                                      
Local Area Network (LAN)

• connect computer within a limited physical area.

 Wide Area Network (WAN)

• Telecommunication network that covers a large geographic area.

 

 Virtual Private Network (VPN)

• used to establish the secure intranets and extranets.

 

Client/Servers Network

1. Clients

• End user personal computers or networked computers.    

     2. Servers

• used to managed the networks.

 
Peer-to-Peer Networks

• central server architecture.