1.4 Services on the Internet


There are many different uses of the Internet today, ranging from business communications to information access to entertainment and financial transactions.

Applications on the Internet today can be classified into two types: traditional and new age. Applications such as e-mail, file transfer protocol (FTP), bulletin boards , and Usenet can be considered traditional, while real-time voice, streaming audio/video, instant messaging, and network games can be thought of as the new-age applications.

Let's take a look at a traditional and very widely used application; e-mail or electronic mail. E-mail has become the communication medium of choice. It has become so pervasive that we see it in almost every walk of life today. It is just as common for someone to give their e-mail address as their point of contact as their phone number. The pioneers of the Internet, the ARPANET folks, had probably not envisioned e-mail as a key or "killer" application when the network was created. Another application with a similar scale of acceptance is Instant Messaging, the equivalent of which is Short Message Service (SMS) in the wireless world.

With the advent of faster processors and more bandwidth, the Internet has become a hotbed of innovation, and new applications are constantly coming online. The pace of innovation has been brisk over the last few years , and the future holds even more exciting and interesting applications and use.



IP in Wireless Networks
IP in Wireless Networks
ISBN: 0130666483
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 164

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