Computer Networking

Computer networking has radically altered the way in which businesses and institutions conduct their daily affairs.  The widespread deployment of the Internet has in many ways changed the nature of business itself. 

Today, businesses use networking for a variety of reasons.  Business communications use email to communicate inter-office and globally.  

In years past, communications was divided into three separate systems of voice, data, and video, but today computer networking technology is blending the three into a single steam.

Bundled services can streamline the management and cost of separate services.

It is a combination of data communication and high speed digital circuit access that has brought on a great technological leap in a span of a few years.

The impetus for the rapid changes has been internet access.  It is using computer networking to link computers to communicate.

Response times are quicker and continuous across time zones, cheaper, and more accurate than at anytime.

How will you use computer technology to improve the position of your business enterprise?

Can your company benefit from the power of networked computers?

Perhaps you operate a small or home office.  Perhaps there are only one or a few computers in your office, and perhaps you do not see an immediate need to link the computers in your office to share data, but you do need to communicate with the outside world via email.  Perhaps there are companies that you do business with and they do business from their web site or VPN.  And in order to continue to do business with them you will need to network your computer to the greatest of all networks -- the internet.

Computer networking is part of doing business.  Business is more computer-centric.  It is a tool to take us further and faster to where we want to go.

Peer-to-peer computer architectures (such as the file-sharing model), and more broadly the capability of networks to allow customers to interact with each other, create a wealth of opportunity for vendors willing to become a trusted agent on behalf of customers. Each customer is not only communicating with many vendors at the same time but also with other customers, hearing their experiences with vendors and learning how to better use their products.

Think about it with an opportunity mind-set: Companies spend millions of dollars on market research to try to get customers to tell them what they think about their products. Being able to create a capability on the Internet where you have 24/7 focus groups, where customers are actively discussing your products, is actually a pretty exciting notion.