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Network Installation. SESSION - 4. Internet & Intranets. Topics to be discussed Internet. Intranet. E-Mail. Internet. What is Internet. Birth of the net. How Web works. Making Connections. Web Browsers. Domain names. Search Engines. Understanding Web addresses. Internet.
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Network Installation SESSION - 4
Internet & Intranets Topics to be discussed • Internet. • Intranet. • E-Mail.
Internet • What is Internet. • Birth of the net. • How Web works. • Making Connections. • Web Browsers. • Domain names. • Search Engines. • Understanding Web addresses.
Internet • Global network connecting millions of computers. • "The" Internet is made up of well over 100,000 interconnected networks in more than 100 countries covering commercial, academic and government endeavors.
Birth of the net. • The Internet began as the ARPANET during the cold war in 1969. It was developed by the US Department of Defense (DOD)
How Web works. • Enter the address of the web site in your web browser. • Browser requests the web page from the web server. • Sever sends data over the Internet to your computer. • Your web browser interprets the data & displays it on your computer screen.
Connecting to the Internet • Dial up Connection – Suitable for small networks & connection is made using a modem . • ISDN Connection – used when higher speed is needed & you need a dial-up ISDN account . • Dedicated high bandwidth connection –Used when Internet connection needs to be available any time .
Web Browsers. • A software application used to locate and display Web pages. • The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. • Both of these are graphical browsers, which means that they can display graphics as well as text.
Domain names. • Domain names are used in URLs to identify particular Web pages. For example, in the URL http://www.hotmail.com, the domain name is hotmail. • Because the Internet is based on IP addresses, not domain names, every Web server requires a Domain Name System (DNS) server to translate domain names into IP addresses.
Domain names(contd..) • Every domain name has a suffix that indicates which top-level (TLD) domain it belongs to. There are only a limited number of such domains. For example: gov - Government agencies edu - Educational institutions org - Organizations (nonprofit) mil - Military com - commercial business net - Network organizations ca - Canada th - Thailand • Because the Internet is based on IP addresses, not domain names, every Web server requires a Domain • Name System (DNS) server to translate domain names into IP addresses.
Search Engines • A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. • Some of the search engines are AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo, Excite etc.
Understanding Web addresses • URL - Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
Understanding Web addresses • For example, the two URLs below point to two different files at the domain ignou.edu. • The first specifies an executable file that should be fetched using the FTP protocol; • the second specifies a Web page that should be fetched using the HTTP protocol: • ftp://www.ignou.edu/stuff.exe http://www.ignou.edu/index.html
Intranet • Intranet Background. • Intranet Details. • Intranet Features. • Potential Functionality of Intranet.
Intranet • A network based on TCP/IP protocols belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization. • An intranet's Web sites look and act just like any other Web sites, but the firewall surrounding an intranet protects form unauthorized access.
Technology Components of Intranet • Communication Protocol. • File Transfer. • Mail. • Web Browsing.
Potential Functionality of Intranet • Information sharing/distribution • Intra-company communications • Decentralized processing for certain functions • Hosting Web based applications • Intelligent routing with tracking and electronic signatures (workflow automation management)
Difference Between Internet & Intranet • So what is the difference between the Internet and Intranet? Mainly the location of the information and who has access to it. • Internet is public, global and wide open to anyone who has an Internet connection. • Intranets are restricted to people who are connected to the private company network. Other than that, they work essentially the same way.
Similarity Between Internet & Intranet • Both run on Network. • Both use the same type of software (eg.Netscape). • Both carry Documents, Data & Multimedia. • Intranet = Same technology used in Internet but everything is in-house.
Advantages of the Intranet • Easy to use. • Information Sharing. • Inter-department communication. • Saves Stationary Through rapid online distribution of information. • Saves the time spent for hunting up information. • Based on open standards • Scaleable and flexible • Connects across disparate platforms
E-Mail • How it works. • Understanding E-mail addresses. • Sending an E-mail message.
E-Mail • In its simplest form, e-mail is an electronic message sent from one computer to another. You can send or receive personal and business-related messages with attachments, such as pictures or formatted documents. You can even send computer programs.
How it works When you send an e-mail message • Your computer sends it to an SMTP server. • The server forwards it to the recipients mail server depending on the email address. • The received message is stored at the destination mail server until the addressee retrieves it
Understanding E-mail addresses Typical e-mail address • User name@domain name.type of domain • User name – refers to recipients mailbox. • Domain name – refers to mail server ie. The computer where the recipient has an electronic mail box. • Type of domain – whether the host is a government, commercial, educational etc organization. • Ex : abc@hotmail.com
Sending an E-mail message Open your e-mail program and launch a new message window by clicking on the appropriate icon.
Sending an E-mail message In the TO box, type in the name of the recipient. It should take this form: recipient@domain.com. You can send a message to more than one person by entering multiple addresses. Just put a semi-colon (;) between each address.
Sending an E-mail message Type in the subject of the e-mail.
Sending an E-mail message Write your message in the message window. You can also copy text from a word processing program and paste it into the window.
Sending an E-mail message • Click on the Send icon or select Send from the File menu.