Garcia, Melody Joy N.

BSIT- BS 2-1
June 13, 2014

INTRODUCTION TO DATA COMMUNICATION
Data could be define as a representation of facts, concepts, or instructions in a
formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by human
beings or by automatic means. Communication is the action of transferring that
information in the form of data from one location to another.
www.roncjohnson.net/examples/docs/mydatacommcourse.pdf

I.DATA COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS
Data communication is about transmitting information from one device to
another. Data communication is interested in the transfer of data, the method of transfer
and the preservation of the data during the transfer process. Data communication is
exchange of digital information between two digital devices.
www.di.unipi.it/~bonucce/11-Datacommunication.pdf
www.linktionary.com/d/datacomm.html

II.DATA COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS
Human-machine interaction
Person-to-person
Person-to-machine or machine-to-person
Machine-to-machine
Type of information
Voice or data
Structured or unstructured
Static image or dynamic image
Timeliness
On-line
Real-time
Store-and forward
Batch


III.REQUIREMNTS OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM
MechWarrior Online Minimum System Spec
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz -- AMD Athlon II X2 245e
GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT -- AMD Radeon HD 5600/5700
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows Vista 32-bit
DirectX: DX9
HDD Space: 4 GB

MechWarrior Online Recommended System Spec:
CPU: Intel Core i3-2500 -- AMD Athlon II X4 650
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 -- AMD Radeon HD 5830
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Windows 7 SP-1 64-Bit
DirectX: DX9
HDD Space: 4 GB
www.tomshardware.com Software Software News
IV.EVOLUTION OF MODERN COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Telegraph
Administrative message switching
Computers

V.COMPUTER NETWORKS
A computer network or data network I a telecommunications network that allows
computers to exchange data. In computer networks, networked computing devices pass
data to each other along data connections. The connections (network links) between
nodes are established using either cable media or wireless media. The best known
computer network is the Internet.
en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer network

VI.NETWORK GOALS
The main goal of networking is "Resource sharing", and it is to make all
programs, data and equipment available to anyone on the network without the
regard to the physical location of the resource and the user.
A second goal is to provide high reliability by having alternative sources of
supply. For example, all files could be replicated on two or three machines, so if
one of them is unavailable, the other copies could be available.
Another goal is saving money. Small computers have a much better
price/performance ratio than larger ones. Mainframes are roughly a factor of ten
times faster than the fastest single chip microprocessors, but they cost thousand
times more. This imbalance has caused many system designers to build systems
consisting of powerful personal computers, one per user, with data kept on one
or more shared file server machines. This goal leads to networks with many
computers located in the same building. Such a network is called a LAN (local
area network).
Another closely related goal is to increase the systems performance as the work
load increases by just adding more processors. With central mainframes, when
the system is full, it must be replaced by a larger one, usually at great expense
and with even greater disruption to the users.
Computer networks provide a powerful communication medium. A file that was
updated/modified on a network, can be seen by the other users on the network
immediately.
homepages.uel.ac.uk/u0214590/goals.html