One for the lessons we learned about this week from Dr. Means was telecommunication. Specifically the way that information travels through the internet. She did a great way in explaining the information in a clear and descriptive way.
According to Dr. Means lecture, Business Telecommunication can be defined as electronic communication, the science and technology of transmitting information electronically by wires or radio signals with integrated encoding and decoding equipment and information transmission over communications lines.
Information travels to get from one location to the other.
Transmission control protocol or TCP used on the start and end of the information. It takes the info and slices it int data grams to send out, IP routes the packets and TCP and reassembles the packets into the complete format to display on users computer.
UDP is used when its important for packets to arrive quickly for things such as Skype. It may glitch, but its sacrificed for the speedy arrival of data.
Last mile, final leg in the connection. Internet speeds are ranked low in the US because we are so spread throughout the country and not in one specific area.
Broadband high speed last mile technology. Wireless uses mobile networks are good but get bogged down at times such as game days.
All of this information is something that I, and a lot of people, take for granted. I just trust that the internet is going to be fast and get from my computer to another in a timely manor, which now-a-days is milliseconds. It was cool to learn about the process and some of the steps necessary in the process.
The most interesting piece of information from this lecture was that WiFi is just a brand name and doesn't stand for anything. I had no idea that its a common misconception that it stands for "wireless fidelity."
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