COIS 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wimax, Icann, Optical Fiber
22 Jan 2018
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Conventional and mobile phone companies, cable companies, and satellite internet providers. Hardware and software companies: provide the hardware and software used in conjunction with the internet and web government and other organizations, some countries limit information and access, fcc influences communications. Internet society (isoc): addresses issues impacting the future of the internet. Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers (icann): domain and ip management: world wide web consortium (w3c): protocols and standards, ensures interoperability, dial-up, uses standard phone lines uses modem to dial-up isp. Requires a cable modem: dsl: broadband delivered over telephone lines. Must be less than 3 miles from a switching station. Transmits over telephone lines but does not tie up the line typically 1-7 mbps: satellite: broadband option for rural areas. Slower and more expensive that cable or dsl. Available in many areas other broadband options are not requires satellite modem, and transceiver dish fixed wireless: uses radio transmission towers rather than satellites.
