Contents Wide Area Networks & Standards 2 1a) Dial-Up 2 1b) Cable Modem 3 2) Switching 4 3) Routers 6 4) WAN Standards 7 Data Communications Assessment 2 Wide Area Networks & Standards 1a) Dial-Up A wide area network connects LANs that are typically separated by great distances. ... Dial-up modems are able to give the average person with a home computer access to the largest library in the world, something that was mainly for companies or the rich. ... Speed is the order of the day now and everyone wants things done faster. ... Most modern Wide Area Network (WAN) pro...

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She believes that email has great capabilities because of its speed and broadcasting ability. Also, because email has such a fast turnaround time, it is much more conversational than the average letter. ... Many servers also provide information stating when the email was received and when the receiver has read it. ... Also, with the ability to check the status of an email, you can personally see if it was lost in the World Wide Web, and if it was you can just hit enter and send another one. ...

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By 1969 legitimate networks had been developed for use to speed up the transfer and allow for more volumes of data to be sent. ... (Berners-Lee, Frischetti, 1999) In the early nineties Bereners-Lee takes the idea of a "world wide web " and shares his html code with the rest of the world. ...

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