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Unit 1 The business environment




Unit 33
The Impact of Communication
Technology on Business
21-01-2016




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, Unit 1 The business environment




Index
Assignment 1 .................................................................................................................................... 3
Task 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3

Assignment 2 .................................................................................................................................... 7
Task 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
Task 2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 9

Assignment 3 ................................................................................................................................. 11
Task 1a.................................................................................................................................................. 11
Task 1b ................................................................................................................................................. 12
Task 2 ................................................................................................................................................... 15
Task 3 ................................................................................................................................................... 16
Task 4 ................................................................................................................................................... 17
Task 5 ................................................................................................................................................... 18
Task 6 ................................................................................................................................................... 19

Assignment 4 ................................................................................................................................. 20
Task 1 ................................................................................................................................................... 20

Sources ............................................................................................................................................ 22
Attachments .................................................................................................................................. 23
Assignment 3 Task 2 ............................................................................................................................... 1
Assignment 3 Task 6 ............................................................................................................................. 12




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Assignment 1
P1: Describe how the internet operates
Scenario: You are a consultant advising local entrepreneurs. The internet is now a major part in any successful
business and knowing how it works it vital, especially when it is used to benefit your company.


Task 1
(P1) In a report of at least 3 pages, describe how the internet works.
Your report should cover at least the following terms:
• What is “the” internet? Describe in your own words
• How the internet works: (Internet as a network, servers, types of connections to the internet, internet
service providers (ISPs), worldwide web (www), protocols, domain names, World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) and Internet Society (ISOC))
• Trends in the Internet (increasing speed; falling costs; increased use of tablets/smartphones, rise of social
networking, growing concerns over data security and increasing worldwide internet usage)
• Use of related mobile technology by business organisations: WiFi; Bluetooth®; 4/5G phones; smartphones;
smartwatches; Voice Over internet Protocol (VoIP)
• Networking of computers: networks; wireless networks; Bluetooth®, 4G phones, Personal Digital Assistants
(PDAs) and iPads, smartphones (iPhones, Blackberrys).


What is the Internet? Describe in your words
Actually, the Internet is just a sum of all the millions of computers that are here on the earth.
And there are cables connecting and talking to each other. So to speak, if you want to visit a
website, then passes a cable from your computer to a computer where finally standing up
website. That goes by sea, sometimes by land, sometimes by air. But that's basically the internet.
Please check back later to Amsterdam, then I'll explain 't there. In Amsterdam, this data center.
A data center is a very important place for the Internet. For example, here is an email through
cables from the one transmitted to the other computer. Or, for example, information from
websites. It's kind traffic controller so. Information on the Internet. We're in. It's very warm, I
immediately. Lots of noise. But I see nothing but cabinets. What happens here exactly. This is an
area with very long row of cabinets. And in those cupboards are computers. And that's what the
Internet. Videos are here. All websites. All pinverkeer, payment traffic goes through these
computers. To finally come home on your computer. Information from all over the world is in
this place, and is stored in computer forwarded to computer. There are more such places. But
this is the third largest exchange in the world. And that is so in our small country. It is actually a
very important country for the Internet. Because there is so much traffic through it. Yes, if it
does not, then the world has a problem. You have to imagine that about 25 billion e-mails per
second going through a building like this. Quite clever that he knows how to find my computer.

How the Internet works
Internet only existed for 20 years. While it's almost impossible to think. But how is it actually,
and how it come that an email of one can be sent to another computer.
Actually, the Internet is just a sum of all the millions of computers that are here on the earth.
And there are cables connecting and talking to each other. So to speak, if you want to visit a
website, then passes a cable from your computer to a computer where finally standing up
website. That goes by sea, sometimes by land, sometimes by air. But that's basically the Internet.
In Amsterdam, is a data centre. A data centre is a very important place for the Internet. For
example, here is an email through cables from the one transmitted to the other computer. Or for

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