...Anthony McKenzie CIS 500 Information Systems for Decision Making Part 2 Prof Vincent Ossisek Part 3: Networks, Telecommunications, and Wireless Computing Making Business Decisions 1: M-Coupons The purpose of this paper is to discuss how technology can help the Broadway Café to strive in this technological society. During the years, technology has made some miraculous technological contributions to society. Currently, the latest technological breakthrough that has been introduced to this country is called mobile couponing. Mobile couponing is a computer generated paperless coupon that is forwarded to individuals through a technological device (What is mobile couponing, n.d.). Many businesses are deciding on using the new method of technology as part of their marketing campaign. When businesses are texting information to their customers this information goes straight to either a loyalty card, or to their cell phone. This is a great benefit to business because it’s helping to cut down on the use of some much paper. Also, those businesses that are sending these coupons to their customers this will help cut down on scanning a lot of coupons that the customer has brought in. Customers are able to get through checkout counter quicker and with ease. Third reason retailers are choosing to send their customers these mobile coupons so that it will make their shopping trip stress free, and customers will never have to worry about...
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...Chapter: 07 Telecommunications, The Internet and Wireless Technology 1. Question: What are the principal components of telecommunications networks and key networking technologies? Answer: The principal components of telecommunications networks: Telecommunications are the means of electronic transmission of information over distances. The information may be in the form of voice telephone calls, data, text, images, or video. Today, telecommunications are used to organize more or less remote computer systems into telecommunications networks. These networks themselves are run by computers. A telecommunications network is an arrangement of computing and telecommunications resources for communication of information between distant locations. A telecommunications network includes the following components: Figure: principal components of a simple computer network 1. Computer: Computers that process information and are interconnected by the network 2. Network Interface: Each computer on the network contains a network interface device called a network interface card (NIC). 3. A Connection medium: The connection medium for linking network components can be a telephone wire, Coaxial cable or radio signal in the case of cell phone and wireless local area networks. 4. Network operating System software: The network operating system (NOS) routes and manages communications on the network and coordinates network resources. ...
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...Chapter 7 TELECOMMUNICATIONS, THE INTERNET, AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY Dr. N. Abdolvand Management Information System Sources Management Information & Jane Laudon, Prentice Hall Systems, Ken Laudon Dr. N. Abdolvand 1 5/14/2016 Cases Case 1: Telepresence Moves Out of the Boardrooom and Into the Field Dr. N. Abdolvand Learning Objectives What are the principal components of telecommunications networks and key networking technologies? What are the main telecommunications transmission media and types of networks? How does the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support communication and e-business? What are the principal technologies and standards for wireless networking, communication, and Internet access? Why are radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensor networks valuable for business? Dr. N. Abdolvand 2 5/14/2016 Telecommunications and Networking in Today’s Business World What is a computer network? Two or more connected computers Major components in simple network Client computer Server computer Network interfaces (NICs) Connection medium Network operating system 5 © Prentice Hall 2011 Telecommunications and Networking in Today’s Business World Components of networks in large companies Hundreds of local area networks (LANs) linked to firmwide corporate network Various powerful servers Web site Corporate intranet, extranet Backend systems Mobile wireless LANs...
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...ABSTRACT In the context of the rapid growth of mobile computing penetration in developing countries, mobile telephony is currently considered to be particularly important for such development. Yet, until recently, very little systematic evidence was available that shed light on the developmental impacts of mobile computing. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the problems and prospects of mobile computing in Nigeria. The paper will be analyzed by theme in order to provide a thematic overview as well as a comparative analysis of the development role of mobile computing. In exploring the evidence from completed projects as well as the foci of new projects, the paper summarizes and critically assesses the key findings and suggests possible avenues for future research. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The fusion of computer and telecommunication technologies has heralded the age of information superhighway over wire-line and wireless networks. Mobile cellular communication systems and wireless networking technologies are growing at an ever-faster rate, and this is likely to continue in the foreseeable future. Wireless technology is presently being used to link portable computer equipment to corporate distributed computing and other sources of necessary information. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile communications, thus bringing an end to the tyranny of geography. Higher...
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...Telecommunication Industry In Singapore IS1105 SRATEGIC IT APPLICATIONS Tutorial Group 2 Group 6 Prepared by: Nguyen Thi Bich Van Pham Thanh Ha Poovanna Ponnimada Ashok Tran Thai Tri Tan A0074274 A0074389 A0074597 A0088437 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. III. OBJECTIVE INDUSTRY DESCRIPTION PORTER’S FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES 1. Threat of new entrants 2. Bargaining power of buyers 3. Bargaining power of suppliers 4. Rivalry among Existing Competitors 5. Threat of substitute products or services 1 1 2 2 2 3 4 5 IV. V. COMPARISON OF THE COMPETITIVE FORCES INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN TELECOMMUNICATION 1. Enterprise Resource Planning a. Telecom Billing System b. Grid Computing Service 2. Customer Relation Management 5 5 5 5 6 7 VI. CONCLUSION 7 I. Objective This report seeks to analyze in detail the current state of competition within the Singapore’s Telecommunications industry. The industry is analyzed based on Porter’s 5 forces model. The paper also aims to identify the key players within the forces. How IT/IS has been able to change the strength of each force is also demonstrated. II. Industry description Generally, telecommunication industry consists of fixed line telecommunication and wireless telecommunication services. Fixed line communication is defined as voice telephony and data transferring offers and broadband. Wireless telecommunication services include mobile phones, pagers and other wireless telecommunication services. The three leading telecommunication...
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...Lecture 6 Telecommunications And Networks Learning Objectives Understand the concept of a network. Apply Metcalfe’s law in understanding the value of a network. Identify major developments and trends in the industries, technologies, and business applications of telecommunications and Internet technologies. Provide examples of the business value of Internet, intranet, and extranet applications. Learning Objectives Identify the basic components, functions, and types of telecommunications networks used in business. Explain the functions of major components of telecommunications network hardware, software, media, and services. Explain the concept of client/server networking. Understand the two forms of peer-to-peer networking. Learning Objectives Explain the difference between digital and analog signals. Identify the various transmission media and topologies used in telecommunications networks. Understand the fundamentals of wireless network technologies. Explain the concepts behind TCP/IP. Understand the seven layers of the OSI network model. Reference Introduction To Information Systems, 16th Edition, Marakas & O’Brien, The McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. The Networked Enterprise Networking The Organization Telecommunications and network technologies are internetworking and revolutionizing business and society. The Internet, the Web, and intranets and extranets are networking business process and employees together; and connecting them to their customers, suppliers...
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...Business Problem-Solving Case (page 317): Google Versus Microsoft: Clash of the Technology Titans 1. Define and compare the business strategies and business models of Google and Microsoft. In comparing the business strategy and business models of Google and Microsoft both technology titans, Google is a very popular search engine tool use for finding any information on the World Wide Web in the shortest possible time. Google began as a search engine and as such its business model focuses on both the internet and the world wide web. The suceccess of Google grew, as they became supervior in the search quiriews by users. the company focuses on internet and the world wide web. Google: Its business model has always focused on the Internet and the Web. It began as one of many search engines. It quickly ran away from the pack with its copyrighted PageRank search algorithm which returns superior search results for Web users. It also has developed extensive online advertising services for businesses of all sizes. It’s ability to attract the best and brightest minds in the industry helps make it one of the most successful Web-based businesses ever. Google provides value to the user by using an inexpensive, flexible infrastructure to speed up Web searches and provide its users with a vast array of Web-based services and software tools. Microsoft: Its business model originally focused on the desktop computer running the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity...
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...386 IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.8 No.11, November 2008 MOBILE LEARNING: AN APPLICATION OF MOBILE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES IN NIGERIAN LEARNING SYSTEM. Boyinbode O. K. and Akinyede R. O. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria Abstract Mobile learning (M-Learning) is the point where mobile computing and e-learning intersect to produce an anytime, anywhere learning experiences. Advances in mobile technologies have enhanced M-learning tools at just the right moment to meet the need for more costeffective just in time training options-learning on the go. Electronic Learning offer methods, which decrease the limitations of traditional education but M-learning offers more. This paper discusses the existing devices and technologies appropriate to realize Mobile learning, its advantages over e-learning, and challenges to its adoption of in Nigeria. Keywords: e-Learning, m-learning, mobile computing, SMS, MMS disadvantages lead to search for new and more effective educational methods. E-learning offers new methods for education based on computer internet technology. Mlearning is the intersection of mobile computing and elearning [5]; M-learning has the ability to learn everywhere at every time without permanent physical connection to cable networks. Mobile and Wireless technologies are being used in diverse areas such as travel, education, stock trading, military, package delivery, disaster recovery...
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...* * * * * The Possibly not so Smartphone Thomas Blackard ITT Tech * * Since the 1990’s cellphone technology has been sneaking itself into our lives one-text message at a time. We have not only become dependent but addicted to our text trance inducing, video playing, face booking internet device wrapped in plastic and glass. The split second our precious phone could touch social media and the internet it was over, we were hooked and there is no turning back. The cellphone has become the single most used portable computing component of our lives and the most disposable and the most intertwined. We could start our story with vendors or marketers but I will discuss some of the more main stream ideology first, i.e. what makes a smartphone a smartphone by definition. From a technological point the discussion is fairly simple really, you take a small LCD screen, battery, cellular radio, CPU and RAM plus a really cool operating system. Voilà! A cell phone. The advanced micro-technology coupled with highly consumable content and our social interactions make the Internet larger and the world smaller. A user could be texting a colleague in Christ Church who could be doing a Facebook Check-In while texting a Twitter post exposing his or her comments or thoughts to tens of thousands of internet denizens almost simultaneously...
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...Integrated Services Digital Network or Digital Subscriber Line, the local loop can carry digital signals directly and at a much higher bandwidth than they do for voice only. The central office is an office in a local area which subscribers home and business lines are connected; it has equipment that can switch calls locally or to long distance carriers. Local exchanges, a telephone exchange, are a telecommunications system used in the public switch telephone network. An exchange consists of electrical units, in older systems human operators, which combine telephone subscriber lines or virtual circuits of digital systems to provide telephone calls between subscribers. A telephone exchange is located in a central office, a building used to house the inside plant equipment for possibly several telephone exchanges. POP or point of presence is an access point to the internet; internet service providers generally have multiple POPS. A point of presence is a physical location, either part of the facilities of a telecommunications provider that the ISP rents or a separate location from the telecommunications provider that stores servers, routers, ATM switches and digital/analog call aggregators. Fixed Lines, or also known as landline telephones, are phones that use a solid medium telephone line (metal wire of fiber optic cables) for transmissions; fixed phones can be hard wired or cordless. Cordless or fixed wireless refers to the operation of wireless devices or systems in fixed...
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...(Author’s name) (Institutional Affiliation) Telecommunication networks and OSI Telecommunications network is an assemblage of links and connecting points where several lines join together which are capable of conveying data, visual and audio activities of conveying information. Besides, audio connectivity, it also includes internet, forms of telephony and wireless equipment. Telecommunication network serve to provide efficient transmittance of data from original point to destination point, for example, a telephone call. Usually, the process that allows users to act together in a real time manner takes place within seconds. Public switched telephone network, internet and private computer networks are common forms of telecommunicating network. These are used in voice and visual communications and in businesses. A telecommunicating network is made up of terminals, computers, links, equipment and software of telecommunication. These are important in accessing the network, channeling transmitted information and regulating conveyance of messages over networks. Telecommunication network can be set up as wide area network which allows for reliable and controlled transmission of information between nodes that are geographically distant. This network model is used by most businesses across the world. Local area network provides more secure same information as in a wide area network on a small geographical area. It provides capabilities of phones...
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...Telecommunication While traditional telecommunications networks have allowed us to cross barriers associated with time and distance, the new multimedia realm is allowing us to include vital physical cues in the information stream, introducing a physical reality into the world of electronic communications, goods, and services. Not surprisingly, some of the industries that are being most radically revolutionized are those that deal with the human senses, including entertainment, health care, education, advertising, and, sadly, warfare. Simply put, technology changes your way and pace of life. In recent years, the word telecommunications has been used so often, and applied in so many situations, that it has become part of our daily lexicon, yet its definition remains elusive. So, let's start with a definition. The word telecommunications has its roots in Greek: tele means "over a distance," and communicara means "the ability to share." Hence, telecommunications literally means "the sharing of information over a distance." Telecommunications is more than a set of technologies, it's more than an enormous global industry (estimated to be US$2.5 trillion), it's more than twenty-first-century business and law that is being re-created to accommodate a virtual world, and it's more than a creator and destroyer of the state of the economy. Telecommunications is a way of life. Telecommunications affects how and where you do everything—live, work, play, socialize, entertain, serve, study...
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...1. A. A local loop is a loop of copper wire that allows a current to flow from a telephone to the central office and back. It is a dual-wire physical interface that connects a telephone to the central office and are typically referred to as a twisted pair. Many of these pairs are twisted together to make a cable for a local loop to provide multiple connections for multiple phone to interface with the local central office. b. A Central office is a building to which a subscribers home and business lines are connected to a local loop. This office has telecom. Switches to switch calls locally or to a long-distance carrier. A central office is also referred to as a local exchange. The subscribers associated to each central office in their local are identified by the first three digits of their telephone number, however, the last four digits identify the specific subscriber. One central office can support up to 10,000 subscribers with the same three digit prefix. Central offices can also support more than one local exchange. c. Local exchanges or local exchange carriers are telephone companies that provide service within a designated geographical area or an LATA, local access transport area. One LEC serves multiple central offices depending upon the geographical size and the population of the area. d. A POP or point of presence in a telephone system is the point where either an LEC or a long distance carrier meets another long distance carrier...
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...Telecommunications Tyson Gant ITT Technical Institute 1: Describe a local land line phone system based on the following Landline Telephone Components: a) Local loop is the physical link or circuit that connects from the demarcation point of the customer premises to the edge of the common carrier or telecommunications service provider's network. b) Central office is an office in a locality to which subscriber home and business lines are connected on what is called a local loop. c) The central office has switching equipment that can switch calls locally or to long-distance carrier phone offices. d) A local system is a central system of switches and other equipment that establishes connections between individual telephones. Also called switchboard. e) POP is a physical location, either part of the facilities of a telecommunications provider that the ISP rents or a separate location from the telecommunications provider, that houses servers, routers, ATM switches and digital/analog call aggregators. f) Long distance system is a system that provides connections between local exchanges in different geographic areas. g) Fixed lines are lines used for denoting or relating to telecommunications systems using cables laid across land, as opposed to cellular radio systems. 2: Define and describe the following Telecommunications Network Components: a. Cellular Telephones: a. The Network Voice Protocol (NVP) was a pioneering computer network...
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...innovative and reliable networks survive. Verizon currently dominates the market and services 31.9% of American mobile users. The company was established in 2000 as a joint venture between Vodafone and Verizon Communications. One of the Verizon’s largest acquisitions was the purchase of Alltell Wireless in 2009 for $28.1 Billion; this purchase expanded their network coverage and increased their market share. Verizon operates a CDMA Radio network which does not require the use of SIM cards. The company’s service quality is a competitive advantage and Verizon invests about $5.7 Billion per year to expand and upgrade their network services. Verizon boasts “America’s largest and most reliable network” and has over 160.3 Million subscribers. They recently added the iPhone to their product line in early February which has allowed the company to take a significant portion of sales away from AT&T. Verizon is one of the most expensive networks and appeals to customers who are willing to pay a premium for advanced network technology. In other news the FCC has accused Verizon of illegally adding charges to customers’ bills. The company was ordered to repay $52.8 million in funds back to customers in early October of 2010. AT&T wireless is the second largest service provider with 98.6 Million users in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. The company has a more economic pricing structure and promotes rollover minutes. AT&T operates a GSM network, which is...
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