N-GEN Communications Web-based Seminars ©NGCS

Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies

Module 2 - Data Communications Basics and Legacy Technologies                                                 Slide 4 of 45 _________________                                                                                  __________

                                 Building Blocks - Information

                                            Voice

                                            Data

                                            Graphics

                                            Video

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Consumer and enterprise applications vary from talking on the phone, rapid authorization of credit purchases, preparation and communicating of architectural designs to clients, to distant education. All applications make use of voice and/or data and/or graphics and/or video.

Each information has characteristics which require sophistication (features) in a network for satisfactory communication.