Computer

Applications
Mohib Ullah Khan

[email protected]
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 Book
2  Discovering Computers Fundamentals by Shelly,
Cashman 4th Edition
 Introduction to Computers by Peter Norton, 6th
International Edition
Discovering Computers
Fundamentals,
2010 Edition
Living in a Digital World
4 Objectives Overview
Describe these uses of
computer communications:
wireless messaging
Discuss the purpose of the services, wireless Internet
components required for access points, cybercafés,
successful communications global positioning systems,
collaboration, groupware,
voice mail, and Web
services

Differentiate among types

Explain the purpose of
of networks: LANs, MANs,
communications software
and WANs
5 Objectives Overview
Describe various
types of lines for Describe
communications commonly used
over the communications
telephone devices
network
Describe various
Discuss different physical and
ways to set up a wireless
home network transmission
media
 6 Communications
 Computer communications describes a process in which two or more
computers or devices transfer data, instructions, and information

Communication Receiving
Sending device
s channel device
7 Communications
8 Uses of Computer
Communications
Blogs Chat rooms E-mail Fax

Instant Newsgroup
FTP Internet
messaging s

Video
conferenci VoIP Web Web 2.0
ng

Web
Wikis
folders
 9 Uses of Computer

Communications
Users can send and receive wireless messages using wireless
messaging services
 10 Uses of Computer
Communications
Text messaging allows users to send and receive
short text messages on a phone or other mobile
device or computer
Picture messaging allows users to send pictures
and sound files

Video messaging allows users to send short video

clips
Wireless instant messaging allows wireless users to
exchange real-time messages with one or more other
users
 11 Uses of Computer
Communications
 Wireless Internet access points allow
people to connect wirelessly to the Internet
from home, work, school, and in many public
locations
 12 Uses of Computer

Communications
A cybercafé is a coffeehouse, restaurant, or other location that
provides personal computers with Internet access to its customers
 13 Uses of Computer
Communications
 A global positioning system (GPS) is a
navigation system that consists of one or
more earth-based receivers that accept and
analyze signals sent by satellites in order to
determine the GPS receiver’s geographic
location
 GPS receivers are:
Built into Available as
many mobile a handheld
devices device
14 Uses of Computer
Communications
 15 Uses of Computer
Communications
 Collaboration software includes tools that enable users to share
documents via online meetings and communicate with other connected
users

Online Web
conference
meetings s

Document
manageme
nt systems
16 Uses of Computer
Communications
 17 Uses of Computer
Communications

Groupwar
Voice mail
e
•Helps groups of people •Allows someone to leave a
work together on projects voice message for one or more
and share information people
•Computer in voice mail system
over a network
converts an analog voice
•Component of workgroup
message into digital form
computing •A voice mailbox is a storage
•Major feature is group location on a hard disk in the
scheduling voice mail system
 18 Uses of Computer
Communications
 Web services enable programmers to create applications that
communicate with other remote computers over the Internet or on an
internal business network
 A mashup is a Web application that combines services from two or
more sources
 19 Networks
 A network is a collection of computers and devices connected
together via communications devices and transmission media
 Advantages of a network include:

Facilitating
communicati
Sharing
ons hardware

Sharing data
and
Sharing
information software
 20 Networks
 A local area
network (LAN) is
a network that
connects
computers and
devices in a limited
geographical area
 A wireless LAN
(WLAN) is a LAN
that uses no
physical wires
 21 Networks
 A metropolitan area network (MAN) connects LANs in a
metropolitan area
 A wide area network (WAN)
is a network that covers a
large geographical area
 22 Networks
 The design of computers, devices, and media
on a network is sometimes called the network
architecture
Client/server network Peer-to-peer network
 23 Networks
 P2P describes an Internet network on which users access each other’s
hard disks and exchange files directly over the Internet
 24 Networks
 A network topology refers to the layout of
the computers and devices in a
communications network
Star network Bus network Ring network
25 Networks

An intranet An extranet
is an allows
internal customers
network or suppliers
that uses to access
Internet part of its
technologie intranet
s
 Network Communications
26

Standards
Etherne Token
t ring
TCP/IP

Bluetoo
Wi-Fi th UWB

IrDA RFID WiMAX

 27Network Communications
Standards
Ethernet is a network standard that specifies no computer controls
when data can be transmitted

The token ring standard specifies that computers and devices on the
network share or pass a special signal (token)

TCP/IP is a network standard that defines how messages are routed

from one end of a network to another
 Network Communications
28


Standards
Wi-Fi identifies any network based on the 802.11 standard that
facilitates wireless communication
 Sometimes referred to as wireless Ethernet
 Network Communications
29

Standards
 Bluetooth defines how two Bluetooth devices
use short-range radio waves to transmit data
 UWB (ultra-wideband) specifies how two UWB
devices use short-range radio waves to
communicate at high speeds
 IrDA transmits data wirelessly via infrared (IR)
light waves
 RFID uses radio signals to communicate with a
tag placed in or attached to an object, animal, or
person
 Network Communications
30

Standards
Wireless
WiMAX Application
(802.16) Protocol (WAP)
•Developed by IEEE •Specifies how some mobile
•Towers can cover a 30- devices can display the
mile radius content of Internet services
•Two types are fixed •Web
wireless and mobile •E-mail
wireless •Chat rooms
•Provides wireless •Uses a client/server
broadband Internet access network
 31 Communications Software
 Communications software consists of programs that:

Help users establish Manage the

a connection to transmission of
another computer data, instructions,
or network and information

Provide an
interface for users
to communicate
with one another
 32 Communications Over
the Telephone Network
 The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the worldwide
telephone system
33 Communications Over
the Telephone Network

Dial-up Dedicat
lines ed line

ISDN DSL
34 Communications Over
the Telephone Network
 35 Communications Devices
 A communications device is any type of hardware capable of
transmitting data, instructions, and information between a sending
device and a receiving device
 A dial-up modem converts signals between analog and digital
 36 Communications Devices
 A digital modem sends and receives data and information to and
from a digital line

ISDN DSL
modem modem

Cable
modem
37 Communications Devices
 38 Communications Devices
 A wireless modem uses the cell phone network to connect to the
Internet wirelessly from a notebook computer, a smart phone, or other
mobile device
 39 Communications Devices
 A network card
enables a
computer or device
to access a
network
 Available in a
variety of styles
 Wireless network
cards often have
an antenna
 40 Communications Devices
 A wireless access point is
a central communications
device that allows
computers and devices to
transfer data wirelessly
among themselves or to a
wired network
 A router connects multiple
computers or other routers
together and transmits
data to its correct
destination on a network
 Many are protected by a
hardware firewall
 41 Home Networks
 Home networks provide computers with the following capabilities:

Connect to the Share a single

high-speed
Internet at the
Internet
same time connection

Access files and

programs on
Share
other computers peripherals
42 Home Networks
 43 Communications Channel
 The amount of data
that can travel over a
communications
channel sometimes is
called the bandwidth
 Transmission media
carries one or more
signals
 Broadband media
transmit multiple
signals
simultaneously
44 Physical Transmission
Media
Twisted-pair cable

Fiber-optic cable

Coaxial cable
45 Wireless Transmission
Media
Infrare Broadca
d st radio

Cellula Microw
r radio aves
 46 Summary

Overview of How to join

communications
terminology and
computers into
applications a network

Various
communications
devices, media,
and procedures
Discovering Computers
Fundamentals,
2010 Edition
Living in a Digital World

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