These are defined as an operator of multiple cable television systems.This usually refers to large cable companies that provide service for multiple communities, such as Time Warner Cable, ComCast or Cox Cable and similar companies. These MSOs provide television service, broadband internet services, and telephone services. ISP stands for internet service provider. This is any company that provides customers direct access to the internet. They use copper cable, wireless, or fiber optic cable to give access to the internet for their customers.
List the six common types of computers available. Mainframe, Server, Desktop, Workstation, Laptop, Handheld 6. Explain what servers are and what they are used for. Servers are high performance computers used in business or other organizations to provide services to many end users. They are used to serve files, programs, web pages, and documents to multiple users.
MAN: A Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) is a large computer network that spans a metropolitan area or campus. Its geographic scope falls between a WAN and LAN. PAN: A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network used for data transmission among devices such as computers, telephones and personal digital assistants. WAN: Wide Area Network. A network used to transmit data over long distances.
d) Multiple users, it can run multiple tasks with many different users at the same time. 4. List three examples of different hardware platforms onto which Linux has been ported. Some examples of different hardware platforms that Linux was ported are Compaq's Alpha-based machines, MIPS-based machines, and Motorola's 68K- based machines. 5.
The message contains a few paragraphs of text. Which of the following will be important to the process of making sure Bob receives the email? B. Bob’s incoming email server 3.) According to this chapter, which of the following concepts happens in a modern-day, end-to-end voice call between two business telephones in the same office building in the United States? (Choose two answers) C. The call uses both analog and digital electrical signals.
9/17/13 Business Law 362W Case Caption: Vollgraff v. Block. Court: Supreme Court, Special Term, Suffolk County. Date: October 26, 1982 Citation: 117 Misc.2d 489, 458 N.Y.S.2d 437, (Sup.Ct.Suffolk Co.1982) Fact: Attorneys Hull, Black and Grundfast formed a partnership for the practice of law on 1 November 1975. The law firm received a personal injury case from Robert Vollgraff on 10 July 1976. The partnership of the law firm was dissolved on 31 December 1976 by mutual agreement.
Case Brief 1 Case Brief: Esquire Radio & Electronics v. Montgomery Ward Walter D. Seyter Legal Environment of Business LAW 529 Professor Cory March 16, 2002 Case Brief 2 Case Brief: Esquire Radio & Electronics v. Montgomery Ward 804 F.2d 787(2nd Cir. 1986) Page 199-200 Plaintiff and Defendant: Plaintiff – Esquire Radio & Electronics Defendant – Montgomery Ward Facts: “Esquire Radio & Electronics helped developed and import consumer electronics products for Montgomery Ward Co. Ward issued import orders foreign manufacturers for products and spare parts. The orders were shipped to Esquire, which inventoried both products and spare parts for Ward’s buy back.” (Corley, 2001).
Question 1: Define and explain the following terminologies: Computer network; White (2013, p.3) defines computer network as “an interconnection of computers and computing equipment using wires or radio waves and can share data and computing resources”. It is basically an interconnection of computer systems comprising of devices such as servers, computers (desktop, laptop), tablets (iPads), mainframe and other hardware devices such as storage devices and printers. Its main purpose is to allow for communication between these computers and equipment so that the different users of the computers in the network can share data and resources. All networks have * a medium of communication that are either hard wired using copper cables, co-axial
In this section of the Comcast Corporation’s annual report we find that Comcast is a Pennsylvania corporation and were incorporated in December 2001. Comcast has developed, managed and operated cable systems since 1963. On January 28, 2011, Comcast closed their transaction with GE in which they acquired a 51% controlling interest in the businesses of NBCUniversal, a leading media and entertainment company that develops, produces and distributes entertainment, news and information, sports, and other content to global audiences. As a result of the NBCUniversal transaction, Comcast reports their operations as the following five reportable business segments: Cable Communications (previously the Cable segment), Cable Networks, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment and Theme Parks. Other business interests primarily include Comcast Spectacor, which owns the Philadelphia Flyers and the Wells Fargo Center, a large, multipurpose arena in Philadelphia.
The Federal Communications Commission was created as a successor to the Federal Radio Commission, the government body that was in charge of radio communications within the United States. With the invention of television, it was obvious that a government body with a larger scale mission would be necessary, and it made sense to group a number of similar duties together. With that being said the Congress created the FCC with the Communications Act of 1934. The stated purposes of the Communications Act are "regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority theretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional