Tuesday, October 25, 2011

IST195 Blog Post 6

Networking is basically the backbone of my entrepreneurial idea. Data from my entrepreneurial idea would mostly be transmitted via the internet. Since data needs to be transmitted from the database to our clients, it is very important to understand how networks work so as to make the most out of it and cut time and cost.

Knowing that a packet is just a small chunk of information, it is important to understand how these chunks of information classified. I believe if the information is clearly classified, they can be well organized. I think this should reduce the size and amount of packets per transaction can be reduced. This should cut down time and cost of transmitting data.

With all the transmission of data worldwide, many servers will need to be used to handle all this information. Therefore, IP addresses and domain names play an important role in the transactions and transmission of the business. As the data is transmitted, all these servers will interact with each other to transmit the data to clients. Each server has an IP address and with it, comes a domain name which acts as an alias for the IP address. It is important to know how servers interact, especially the number of relays needed for clients to access information from all the servers. We need to make sure the number of relays is not too long so that it will not be time consuming. It is also important to ensure that domain names are well regulated just in case hackers start using domain names similar to the business, which may affect the reputation of the business.

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