Business Data Communications

and Networking
8th Edition

Jerry Fitzgerald and Alan Dennis

John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Prof. M. Ulema
Manhattan College
Computer Information Systems
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 Chapter 1

Introduction to Data
Communications

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 Outline
• Brief history
– Communications, Information Systems and the Internet
• Data Communications Networks
– Network components, network types
• Network Models
– OSI model, Internet model, Layers
• Network Standards
– Standards making, common standards
• Future Trends
– Pervasive networking, integration of voice, video, and
data, new information services

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 Information Age
• First Industrial Revolution
– Introduction of machinery
– New organizational methods
– Changed the way people worked
• Second Industrial Revolution – Information Age
– Introduction of computers
– Introduction of networking and data communication
– Changed the way people worked again
• Faster communication  Collapsing Information lag
• Brought people together  Globalization

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 Collapsing Information Lag
Electronic sped up the rate of
communications transmission of information,
telegraph

1850 1900 1950 2004

Information took Information huge quantities of

days or weeks to transmitted in information
be transmitted minutes or hours transmitted in a
fraction of a second.

growth of telecommunications and globalization

especially computer networks phenomenon
(WWW)
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 Three Faces of Networking
• Fundamental concepts of networking
– How data moves from one computer to another over a
network
– Theories of how network operate
• Technologies in use today
– How theories are implemented, specific products
– How do they work, their use, applications
• Management of networking technologies
– Security
– Network Design
– Managing the network

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 Advances in Phone Technology
first trans- Telstar
continental (Telecommunications Packet-switched
and via satellite), Fax data
transatlantic services, digital communications
Phone phone transmission (T-
invented connections carriers)

1876 1915 1948 1962 1976

1919 1969 1984

Strowger (stepper) Microwave

switch, trunk lines Picturefone Cellular
rotary dial phones (Canada) (failed telephone
(enabling automatic commercially)
connections)
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 Invention to Regulation
FCC established
US
A time for Regulation Carterfone court
Telecom
technological began in the decision allowing
change Act
USA (ICC) non-Bell CPE

1876 1885 1900 1910 1934 1968 1996

AT&T 1970 1984

Phone Bell System:
invented (rapid Consent
de facto
acceptance) decree by US
monopoly
federal court
millions of phones MCI wins court case;
in use in the US begins providing some
long distance services
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 1984 Consent Decree
Divestiture:
• AT&T broken up into a long distance company (AT&T) & 7
Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs)
South US West AT&T
Western Bell Atlantic
Bell

Pacific Bell NYNEX

AT&T
Ameritech Bell South

Deregulation:
• Competitive long distance (IXC) market; MCI & Sprint enter LD
market (among others)
• Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) service markets remained
under RBOC monopoly
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 US Telecom Act of 1996
• Replaced all current laws, FCC
regulations, 1984 consent decree, and
overrules state laws
• Main goal: open local markets to
competition
• To date, though, local competition slow to
take hold…
– Large IXCs expected to move into the local
markets, happening only recently
– Likewise, RBOCs expected to move into long
distance markets, happening only recently
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 Worldwide Competitive Markets
• Internet market
– Extremely competitive with more than 5000 Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) in the US alone.
– Heavy competition in this area may lead to a shake out
in the near future.
• World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement
(1997)
– commitments by 68 countries to open, deregulate or
lessen regulation in their telecom markets
• Multi-national telecom companies
– US companies offering services in Europe, South
America
– European companies offering services in USA

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History of Information Systems
Online real-time,
transaction oriented PC LANs
Batch systems (replaced batch
processing become
mainframes processing. DBMSs common
become common)

1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000

PC revolution
Data communications over
Networking
phone lines (became
everywhere
common and mainframes
became multi-user systems)

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 Internet Milestones

NSFNet commercial
Originally called created as
ARPANET, the Internet access to
US Internet the Internet
began as a military-
academic network backbone begins

1969 1983 1986 1990 2001

1994

ARPANET splits: Government Over 240

• Milnet - for military funding of the million
• Internet - academic, backbone servers
education and research ends and 400
purposes only million
users
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 Datacom Basics
Telecommunications
transmission of voice, video, data,
- imply longer distances
- broader term

Data Communications
movement of computer information
by means of electrical or optical
transmission systems
convergence

Broadband Communications
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Components of a Local Area Network
To other networks
(e.g., Internet)
Router
Servers
File
HUB
Server

Web Client
Server Computers
Circuits
Print Printer
Server

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 Network Types (based on Scale)
• Local Area Networks (LANs) - room, building
– a group of PCs that share a circuit.

• Backbone Networks - less than few kms

– a high speed backbone linking the LANs at various locations.

• Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) - (< few 10

kms)
– connects LANs and BNs at different locations
– leased lines or other services used to transmit data.

• Wide Area Networks (WANs) - (> few 10 kms)

– Same as MAN except wider scale

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LAN vs. BN vs. MAN vs. WAN

Figure 1.2 goes here

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 Intranet vs. Extranet
• Intranet
– A LAN that uses the Internet technologies
– Open only those inside the organization
– Example: insurance related information provided to
employees over an intranet
• Extranet
– A LAN that uses the Internet technologies
– Open only those invited users outside the organization
– Accessible through the Internet
– Example: Suppliers and customers accessing inventory
information in a company over an extranet

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 Implementation of
Communications Functions

Applications Applications Single

layer
OS OS implemen-
tation

Applications Applications
Multi layer
implementation
OS OS -Breaking down into
smaller components
-Easier to implement

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 Multi-layer Network Models
• The two most important such network models:
OSI and Internet
• Open Systems Interconnection Model
– Created by International Standards Organization (ISO)
as a framework for computer network standards in 1984
– Based on 7 layers
• Internet Model
– Created by DARPA originally in early 70’s
– Developed to solve to the problem of internetworking
– Based on 5 layers
– Based on Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet
Protocol (TCP/IP) suite

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 7-Layer Model of OSI
Physical DataLink Network Transport Session Presentation Application
Please Do Not Touch Steve’s Pet Alligator

• Application Layer
– set of utilities used by application programs
• Presentation Layer
– formats data for presentation to the user
– provides data interfaces, data compression and
translation between different data formats
• Session Layer
– initiates, maintains and terminates each logical session
between sender and receiver
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 7-Layer Model of OSI
• Transport Layer
– deals with end-to-end issues such as segmenting the
message for network transport, and maintaining the
logical connections between sender and receiver
• Network Layer
– responsible for making routing decisions
• Data Link Layer
– deals with message delineation, error control and
network medium access control
• Physical Layer
– defines how individual bits are formatted to be
transmitted through the network

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 Internet’s 5-Layer Model
Physical DataLink Network Transport Application
Please Do Not Touch Alligator
• Application Layer
– used by application program
• Transport Layer
– responsible for establishing end-to-end connections,
translates domain names into numeric addresses and
segments messages
• Network Layer - same as in OSI model
• Data Link Layer - same as in OSI model
• Physical Layer - same as in OSI model
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Comparison of Network Models

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Message Transmission Using Layers
sender receiver

Applications Applications

A receiving layer
wraps incoming
message with an
envelope A receiving layer
removes the
• Adds layer
layer related
related
envelope and
addressing
forwards the
information
message up

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 Protocols
• Used by Network model layers
• Sets of rules to define how to
communicate at each layer and how to
interface with adjacent layers

Layer N+1 Layer N+1

Layer N Layer N

Layer N-1 Layer N-1

sender receiver
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Message Transmission Example

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 Important Points to Observe
• Many different software packages (protocols) and
many different packets (at different layers)
– Easy to develop new software
– Simple to change the software at any level
• Matching layers communicate at different
computers
– Accomplished by standards
– e.g., Physical layer at the sending computer must be
the same in the receiving computer
• Somewhat inefficient
– Involves many software layers and packet types
– Packet overhead (slower transmission, processing time)

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 Standards
• Importance
– Provide a “fixed” way for hardware and/or software
systems (different companies) to communicate
– Help promote competition and decrease the price
• Types of Standards
– Formal standards
• Developed by an industry or government standards-
making body
– De-facto standards
• Emerge in the marketplace and widely used
• Lack official backing by a standards-making body

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 Standardization Processes
• Specification
– Developing the nomenclature and identifying
the problems to be addressed
• Identification of choices
– Identifying solutions to the problems and
choose the “optimum” solution
• Acceptance
– Defining the solution, getting it recognized by
industry so that a uniform solution is accepted

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 Major Standards Bodies
• ISO (International Organization for
Standardization)
– Technical recommendations for data communication
interfaces
– Composed of each country’s national standards orgs.
– Based in Geneva, Switzerland (www.iso.ch)
• ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union –
Telecom Group
– Technical recommendations about telephone, telegraph
and data communications interfaces
– Composed of representatives from each country in UN
– Based in Geneva, Switzerland (www.itu.int)
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 Major Standards Bodies (Cont.)
• ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
– Coordinating organization for US (not a standards-
making body)
– www.ansi.org
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers)
– Professional society; also develops mostly LAN
standards
– standards.ieee.org
• IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
– Develops Internet standards
– No official membership (anyone welcomes)
– www.ietf.org
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 Some Data Comm. Standards
Layer Common Standards
HTTP, HTML (Web)
5. Application layer MPEG, H.323 (audio/video)
IMAP, POP (e-mail)
4. Transport layer TCP (Internet)
SPX (Novell LANs)
3. Network layer IP (Internet)
IPX (Novell LANs)
Ethernet (LAN)
2. Data link layer Frame Relay (WAN)
PPP (dial-up via modem for MAN)
RS-232c cable (LAN)
1. Physical layer Category 5 twisted pair (LAN)
V.92 (56 kbps modem)
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 Emerging Trends in Networking
• Pervasive Networking
• Integration of Voice, Video and Data
• New Information Services

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 Pervasive Networking
• Means “Network access everywhere”
• Exponential growth of Network use
• Many new types of devices will have
network capability
• Exponential growth of data rates for all
kinds of networking
• Broadband communications
– Use circuits with 1 Mbps or higher (e.g., DSL)

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Relative Capacities of Telephone, LAN,
BN, WAN, and Internet Circuits.

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Integration of Voice, Video & Data
• Also called “Convergence”
– Networks that were previously transmitted
using separate networks will merge into a
single, high speed, multimedia network in the
near future
• First step (already underway)
– Integration of voice and data
• Next Step
– Video merging with voice and data
– Will take longer partly due to the high data
rates required for video
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 New Information Services
• World Wide Web based
– Many new types of information services becoming
available
• Services that help ensure quality of information
received over www
• Application Service Providers (ASPs)
– Develop specific systems for companies
• Providing and operating a payroll system for a
company that does not have one of its own
• Information Utilities (Future of ASPs)
– Providing a wide range of info services (email, web,
payroll, etc.) (similar to electric or water utilities)
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 Implications for Management
• Embrace change and actively seek to apply
networks to improve what you do
– Information moved quickly and easily anywhere and
anytime
– Information accessed by customers and competitors
globally
• Use a set of industry standard technologies
– Can easily mix and match equipment from different
vendors
– Easier to migrate from older technologies to newer
technologies
– Smaller cost by using a few well known standards

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