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February 05, 2007

Lecture: What is infrastructure?

Key concepts: definition of infrastructure, the seven features of infrastructure
Examples: telephone exchanges & operators, the North American Numbering Plan Administration, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the Communications Workers of America, the Federal Communications Commission, the QWERTY vs. Dvorak keyboard, freeserve (UK), markings for underground wiring, satellite flares (see also this satellite flare prediction service).

Textbook: 12: The Communications Infrastructure

Read Chapter 12, The Communications Infrastructure, from Media Now. Key concepts: infrastructure, examples of infrastructure, analog vs. digital, digital compression, modems

Announcement: The online reading for 2/7 has been fixed