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Domain Name Service ( DNS )
While DNS is one of the least necessary technologies that make up the Internet as we know it, it is also true that the Internet would never have become as popular as it is today if DNS did not exist. Though this may sound like a bit of a contradiction, it is true, nonetheless.
DNS ...
About IBM Millipede Memmory
Millipede is a non-volatile computer memory stored on nanoscopic pits burned into the surface of a thin polymer layer, read and written by a MEMS-based probe. It promises a data density of more than 1 terabit per square inch (1 gigabit per square millimeter), about 4 times the density ...
About Fire Wire
FireWire is a high speed serial bus developed by Texas Instruments and Apple computers. FireWire is compatible with more than 63 electronic and digital devices, which makes it a great choice for many people. Technically speaking, FireWire is a PC serial bus interface standard that ...
Optical Packet Switching detailed description
Optical packet switching promises to bring the flexibility and efficiency of Internet to transparent optical networking with bit rate extending beyond that currently available with electronic router technologies. New optical signal processing have been demonstrated that enable routing ...
About Blu-ray disc and its technologoy
What is a Blu-ray disc?
Blu-ray disc is a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by a group of leading consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), which succeeds the Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF). Because it uses blue lasers, which ...
4G (fourth generation) features and benifits
The approaching 4G (fourth generation) mobile communication systems are projected to solve still-remaining problems of 3G (third generation) systems and to provide a wide variety of new services, from high-quality voice to high-definition video to high-data-rate wireless channels.
The ...
What is Push Technology ?
Push technology is a relatively new means for automating the delivery of news and information to computer “desktops” on the Internet and on internal organizational intranets. Push methods differ from e-mail in their immediacy–real-time data delivery versus a typically delayed ...
Different types of Internet connections
The options for providing user connectivity to the Internet are given below:
1. Terminal Dialup/Modem (Shell connection)
Most common option
User requirements limited to modem and communications software
Text-only access
Shell accounts were more popular before ...
Peer to Peer and Client Server Networks
NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS
Introduction
Two major network configurations are:
· Peer to Peer
· Client server
Peer-to-Peer Networks
Peer-to-peer networks allow you to connect two or more computers in order to pool their resources. Individual resources such as disk drives, CD-ROM drives, ...
Network Concepts
Understanding Networks
What is a Network?
A network is nothing more than two or more computers connected to each other so that they can exchange information, such as:
- e-mail messages or documents,
- Share resources, such as disk storage or printers.
The connection may be via electrical ...
About Virtual Machines
In computer science, a virtual machine is software that creates a virtualized environment between the computer platform and its operating system, so that the end user can operate software on an abstract machine.
Conceptually a computer system is made up of layers. The hardware is ...
Registers and Shift Registers
Registers
A register is a group of binary storage cells suitable for holding binary information. A group of fip flop constitutes a registrer since each flip flop is abinary cell capable of storing one bit of information. An n-bit register has a group of n fipflops and is capable of ...