MIS 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Voice Over Ip, Net Neutrality, Internet Backbone

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Mgmt Info Systems
• Course: MIS 311
• Professor: Seyed Eshagh Ashraf Vaghefi

Document Summary

Internet is platform of possibilities and business enabler. Internet service provider (isp): organization/firm that provides access to internet: connect to one another, exchange traffic, ensure that messages are sent, no one owns it; the internet has no center. This allows other aspects of the internet to keep running if a server or wire should fail. Url: uniform resource locator *****know these****: host name, domain name, top level domain, path (case sensitive, file (case sensitive) Hypertext transfer protocol (http://) allows web browser/server to communicate with each other: protocol defines format of data and sets rules for exchange ftp: file transfer protocol. Copies files from one computer to another load balancing and fault tolerance. First come first serve basis: cyber squatting. Hypertext markup language: language used to compose web pages: websites can deliver just about any type of file, not just html. Ip address: we are running out of them. Domain name service (dns): know how it works: cache, cache poisoning.