Draft:Outline of computer networking
{{Short description|Network that allows computers to share resources and communicate with each other}}
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer networking:
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What ''type'' of thing is computer networking?
Computer networking can be described as all of the following:
Branches of computer networking
Types of computer networks
History of computer networking
Data transmission
=Wired transmission=
- Public switched telephone network
- Modems and dialup
- Dedicated lines — leased lines
- ISDN
- DSL
- Time-division multiplexing(TDM)
- Packet switching
- Frame relay
- PDH
- Ethernet
- RS-232
- RS-485
- Optical fiber transmission
- Synchronous optical networking(SONET)
- Fiber distributed data interface
=Wireless transmission=
Extreme Short range
- ZigBee
- Short range
- Bluetooth
- InfraRed(IrDA)
- Medium range
- WiFi(IEEE 802.11)
- WiMax(IEEE 802.16)
- Long range
- Satellite
- MMDS
- SMDS
- Mobile phone data transmission (channel access methods)
- CDMA
- CDPD
- GSM
- TDMA
- Paging networks
- DataTAC
- Mobitex
- Motient
Computer networking publications
Computer networking organizations
Persons influential in computer networking
See also
References
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External links
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