Strand Two ITGS Assignment - Standards and Protocols allow different rules and settings to work together with each other in different IT systems. They might control how hardware, software and information are understood in the IT environment.

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Standards and Protocols

Formal Definition:

 Standards and Protocols are technical rules and conventions that enable compatibility and therefore facilitate communications or interoperability between different IT systems and their components. They might govern the design and use of hardware, software and information. For example the communication protocols used on the internet, the ASCII representations for characters or the design of the printer port on a personal computer are all governed by standards.

Informal Definition:

Standards and Protocols allow different rules and settings to work together with each other in different IT systems. They might control how hardware, software and information are understood in the IT environment. For example, if you wanted to print something off the internet (picture), the computer follows certain protocols to send the information from the internet to the printer port, to be digitalized on paper.

Video Clip: Before talking about the 5 articles, I found a video to help explain what and Internet Protocol is, since many of the articles have to do with Internet Protocol

The second video goes a little more in depth about IP, and how it works

Articles

  • Digital Nomads – are individuals who are able to live and work anywhere they please, using hotspots to be able to work.
  • For example, this woman in the article quit her job, and would travel around the world, and work on her blog in order to create revenue.
  • For these digital nomads, they have trouble working on their own compared to when they would work in the office
  • In the office, you would be assured a good internet connection, meaning good productivity compared to Digital Nomads, in which the internet connection can vary dramatically influencing their productivity
  • The creation of online storage services like Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive, and Adrive have greatly aided digital nomads, since they can now store all of their information on the internet, making it much more practical, and this is done by going through the layers in the communication protocols, which were explained in the video
  • The creation of mi-fi also benefited the digital nomads, it is a device which holds a SIM card. It is powered by a battery that takes the cellular signal and transforms it into a wi-fi hotspot, so now the digital nomads can have their own IP address, assuring them a constant, and fast internet connection and with this, they can work more productively
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Overall, this article can connect to Standards and Protocols since these digital nomads depend on Internet Protocols and Communication Protocols in order for them to be able to roam around the world, while working.

  • In this article, a man named Jerome P. McDonough, feared that people today are using technology to store files, too much
  • He fears that the digital files that we save on to storage devices may be unreadable to our future computers, calling it a “digital dark age”, which is an unintended ...

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