Major Internet services include e-mail, newsgroups, chatting, instant messaging, Telnet, FTP and the World Wide Web.
Businesses today could not survive without their computer and telecommunications networks. You need to communicate rapidly with your customers, suppliers, and employees. Networking and the Internet are now nearly synonymous with doing business. Implemented a mobile wireless local area network (LAN) using Internet standards to provide integrated voice and data coverage across the entire hotel. Implemented a mobile wireless local area network (LAN) using Internet standards to provide integrated voice and data coverage across the entire hotel. The new wireless network enables these employees to communicate via wireless handhelds or notebook PCs wherever they are working. HRO estimates this technology has saved 60 hours per year per staff member or a total of 4800 hours annually. This time savings from increased employee productivity can be spent on more personal attention to guests and face-to-face customer service. provided by contemporary networking technology. HRO used Internet and wireless networking technology to provide staff and guests with voice and data communication capabilities, as well as wireless Internet access, anywhere in the hotel. HRO’s outdated networking and voice technology made it difficult to provide this experience.
The network we have just described might be suitable for a small business. But what
about large companies with many different locations and thousands of employees? As a
firm grows, and collects hundreds of small local area networks (LANs), these networks
can be tied together into a corporate-wide networking infrastructure. The network infrastructure
for a large corporation consists of a large number of these small local area networks
linked to other local area networks and to firmwide corporate networks. A number
of powerful servers support a corporate Web site, a corporate intranet, and perhaps an...