| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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Bluetooth Wireless Operation by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| Many devices that you already known and use take advantage of this frequency band. Garage door openers, baby monitors, and the next generation of mobile phones all use this frequency within the ISM band. Ensuring that Bluetooth and the other devices don't interfere with each other is a crucial part ... |
| Published: Saturday 25 April, 2009 |
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Networking - part 1 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| The first networks were time-sharing networks that used mainframes and attached terminals. Such environments were implemented by both IBM's System Network Architecture (SNA) and Digital's network architecture. Local area networks (LANs) evolved around the PC revolution and provide high-speed, fault-... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 10 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| In 1985, the Computer Communications Industry Association (CCIA) requested the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) to develop a generic cabling standard for commercial buildings that would be capable of running all current and future networking systems over a common topology using a common media... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 11 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| With the price of PCs falling at the same time the advantages for consumers to being connected - online investing and shopping, keeping in touch with long-distance friends and relatives, enjoying multiplayer games and tapping the vast resources of the Internet - continued to multiply, it was no surp... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 12 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| Phoneline networking takes advantage of unused transmission capacity to transmit data over existing telephone wires. They transmit information at frequencies well above that of plain old telephone service (POTS) or digital services like ISDN and DSL, so the network does not interfere with the normal... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 13 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ratified the original 802.11 specification in 1997 as the standard for WLANs. That version of 802.11 provided for 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s data rates and a set of fundamental signalling methods and other services. |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 14 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| As with the others, the technology for wireless networks has also been around for some time, achieving a measure of success during the late 1990s in a number of vertical markets, including health-care, retail and manufacturing. Home networking simply takes the technology to another level of function... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 2 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| LAN topologies define the manner in which network devices are organised. Four common LAN topologies exist... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 3 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| Developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards committee in the mid-1980s - at a time when high-speed engineering workstations were beginning to tax the bandwidth of existing LANs based on Ethernet and Token Ring... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Networking - part 4 by MDofPC |
Topic: Networking |
| Ethernet was developed in the mid 1970s by the Xerox Corporation, and in 1979 Digital Equipment Corporation DEC) and Intel joined forces with Xerox to standardise the system. The first specification by the three companies called the "Ethernet Blue Book" was released in 1980, it was also known as the... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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