MIS 140 Lecture 7: MIS Chapter 7 Notes

• School: DePaul University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 140
• Professor: Kanter Howard

Document Summary

Local area network: connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in an office building, school, or home. Wide area network: spans a large geographic area such as a state province, or country. Metropolitan area network: a large computer network usually spanning a city. National service providers: private companies that own and maintain the worldwide backbone that supports the internet. Network access points: traffic exchange points in the routing hierarchy of the internet that connects nsps. Regional service providers: offer internet service by connection to nsps, but they can also connect directly to each other. Bandwidth: the maximum amount of data that can pass from one point to another in a unit of time. Broadband: a high speed internet connection that is always connected. Protocol: a standard that specifies the format of data as well as the rules to be followed during transmission.