Emerging Telecommunications Technologies ISOM 591 International Telecommunications February 21, 2000
Communications Model Communication channel Receiver Sender noise
Telecommunications Transmission wire telegraph (Morse) wireless telegraphy (Marconi) printing telegraph binary code (Baudot) telephone (Alexander Graham Bell
Telecommunications Transmission telephone switching systems - from manual to automatic AM radio and the vacuum tube AT&T and Western Union FDM telecommunications regulation
Telecommunications Transmission semiconductors computer switching systems coaxial cable microwave radio transatlantic submarine cable
Telecommunications Transmission digital switching - TDM annd PCM satellite relay communications CATV fiber optics break-up of Ma Bell fiber optic cable
Telecommunications Transmission new network technologies ATM Telecom Act of 1996
The Internet and the Global Economy From the UNIVAC to 700 Mhz on the desktop to molecular nanotechnology IC’s The Internet from ARPANET to cyberspace to guy.com WWW, JAVA, WebTV, PalmPilot Mer e-Christmas!
Internet Hardware, Software, and Services Cisco, 3Com, Sun, IBM cisco.com Microsoft vs. Netscape ISP’s AOL and Netscape Retail services e-trading
What can you on the Web? Electronic newspapers e-commerce education music chat rooms real estate
Internet Access 56K from the home Cable modem DSL ISDN (still around!) too slow! Cable modem DSL ISDN (still around!)
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