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A Web site that offers a single point of entry to an entire community of affiliated interests.
Affinity Portal
Communications channels that use physical wires or cables to transmit data and information.
What is Cable Media
Mutual efforts by two or more individuals who perform activities in order to accomplish certain tasks
What is collaboration
A process in which an organization outsources a task to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.
What is crowdsourcing
The name assigned to an Internet site, consisting of multiple parts, separated by dots, which are translated from right to left.
What are Domain Names
What is High-speed central networks to which multiple smaller networks (e.g., LANs and smaller WANs) connect.
What are Backbone Networks
A virtual meeting place where groups of regulars come to “gab” electronically
What is a chat room
A Web site that offers fairly routine content for diverse audiences; offers customization only at the user interface
What is a commercial portal
A discrete pulse, either on or off, that conveys information in a binary form
What are digital signals
Learning supported by the Web; can be done inside traditional classrooms or in virtual classrooms
The transmission capacity of a network, stated in bits per second
What is bandwidth
Form of distributed processing in which some machines (servers) perform computing functions for end-user PCs (clients).
A Pathway for communicating data from one location to another.
What is a
Communications Channel
Learning situations in which teachers and students do not meet face-to-face
(hint : we do this)
What is Distance Learning
Enterprise Network
What is An organization’s network composed of interconnected multiple LANs and WANs.
Communications channels that use electromagnetic media (the “airwaves”) to transmit data.
What is
Broadcast/Wireless Media
Computers, such as users’ personal computers, that use any of the services provided by servers.
A system that connects computers and other devices via communications media so that data and information can be transmitted among them.
What is a computer network
Network architecture that divides processing work between two or more computers, linked together in a network.
What is Distributed Processing
A common local area network protocol
What is ethernet
Software applications through which users primarily access the Web.
What are browsers
Insulated copper wire; used to carry high-speed data traffic and television signals.
What is Coaxial Cable
A Web site that provides a single point of access to critical business information located inside and outside of an organization
What is a corporate portal
The system administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN) that assigns names to each site on the Internet
What is Domain Name System (DNS)
A network that connects parts of the intranets of different organizations
What is extranet