Contemporary data communications and local networking principles
Abstract
The most important issue of data communications today is networking which can be roughly divided into two catagories: local networking; and distributed processing. The most sought after aspect of local networking is office automation. Office automation really is the grand unification of all local communications and not of a new type of business office as the name might imply. This unification is the ability to have voice, data, and video carried by the same medium and managed by the same network resources. There are many different ways this unification can be done, and many manufacturers are designing systems to accomplish the task. Distributed processing attempts to share resources between computer systems and peripheral subsystems from the same or different manufacturers. There are several companies that are trying to solve both networking problems with the same network architecture.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- August 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982STIN...8335209C
- Keywords:
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- Communication Networks;
- Computer Networks;
- Data Management;
- Automation;
- Circuits;
- Data Links;
- Office Automation;
- Satellite Transmission;
- Communications and Radar