Thursday, 8 May 2014

Internet

Internet: worldwide network of networks, use TCP/IP to control data exchange.
WWW: World Wide Web, is all the public web sites on the internet.
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol - makes sure the correct data is delivered from client to server, detects error.  IP - moves data between networks.

Redundancy:   A backup system if something fails

Digital and analogue internet: was made of phone system so used analogue system, analogues have to be decoded so digital ones are better as they don't need to be decoded.

bandwidth:  speed of data transmission normally in bit rate

Broadband:  high speed data transmission that carries large amount of data at once through a cable.