Charlie Eddington

THE INTERNET KEY TERMS

IMPORTANT INTERNET TERMS

A point of presence (PoP) is an artificial demarcation
point or interface point between communicating entities.
Network Access Point (NAP)
A Network Access Point (NAP) was a public network
exchange facility where Internet service providers
(ISPs) connected with one another in peering
arrangements.
Internet Protocol (IP)
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal
communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite
for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.
Transmission Control Protocol The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the
(TCP)
core protocols of the Internet protocol suite (IP), and is
so common that the entire suite is often called TCP/IP.
TCP provides reliable, ordered and error-checked
delivery of a stream of octets between programs
running on computers connected to a local area
network, intranet or the public Internet. It resides at the
transport layer.
File Transfer Control Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network
(FTP)
protocol used to transfer computer files from one host
to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the
Internet. FTP is built on client-server architecture and
uses separate control and data connections between
the client and the server.
Internet Service Provider (ISP) An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization
that provides services for accessing, using, or
participating in the Internet.
ISP Services
TalkTalk, Virgin Media. BT, Sky, EE, PlusNet.
INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE
Server
A server is a running instance of an application
(Software) capable of accepting requests from the
client and giving responses accordingly.
Point of Presence (PoP)

Client

Router

A client is a piece of computer hardware or software

that accesses a service made available by a server.
The server is often (but not always) on another
computer system, in which case the client accesses the
service by way of a network.
A router is a networking device, commonly specialized
hardware that forwards data packets between computer
networks. This creates an overlay internetwork, as a
router is connected to two or more data lines from
different networks.

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Connecting backbone

The Internet backbone may be defined by the principal

data routes between large, strategically interconnected
computer networks and core routers on the Internet.

INTERNET CONNECTION METHODS

Description
Advantages
Disadvantages
Wireless
Allows people to connect to the
Cost efficient;
It has a certain
internet using a router and not a
Wireless;
range; you cant
cable.
No cables.
be too far away.
Broadband 1.
A high-capacity
Convenient; solid Costly.
transmission technique using a
connection.
Theres a high
wide range of frequencies, which
Offers unlimited
security risk.
enables a large number of
access.
messages to be communicated
Fast and
simultaneously.
efficient.
Dial up
Dial-up Internet access is a form
Gives a solid
Requires a
of Internet access that uses the
connection.
telephone.
facilities of the public switched
Cant use a
telephone network (PSTN) to
telephone while
establish a dialed connection to
dial-up is being
an Internet service provider (ISP)
used.
via telephone lines.
Ethernet
A family of computer networking
Covers larger
Requires a
technologies for local area
networks.
cable.
networks (LAN) and larger
Gives a stable
networks.
connection.
Bandwidth
Bandwidth is a measurement of bit-rate of available or consumed data
definition:
communication resources expressed in bits per second or multiples of it
(bit/s, kbit/s, Mbit/s, Gbit/s, etc.).
Bit definition: A bit (short for binary digit) is the smallest unit of data in a computer.