15/15 - IT Infrastructure Chapter 1 Review Questions 1.1 ( 2 marks) What three kinds of organisational difficulties can communications technology help companies overcome? Firstly‚ companies that are geographically dispersed are made more manageable with good networks. Secondly‚ they help trim down middle management for top-heavy companies and lastly‚ they help break down the barriers between divisions within a company. Chapter 2 Problems 2.16 (3 marks) A digital video camera provides an
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matter to the customer. There are two main ways to strengthen customer retention. One is to erect high switching barriers or cost. Customers are less inclined to switch to another supplier when this would involve high capital costs‚ high search costs‚ or the loss of loyal – customer discounts. The better approach is to deliver high customer satisfaction. The definition of switching costs is quite
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connection-oriented broadband integrated services digital networks (B-ISDN‚ and its better-known supporting technology ATM) and connectionless IEEE 802.6 switched multi-megabit data service (SMDS). Cell relay is extremely reliable for transporting vital data. Switching devices give the precise method to cells as each endpoint address embedded in a cell. An example of cell relay is ATM‚ a prevalent form utilized to transfer a cell with a fixed size of 53 bytes. Cell relay systems break variable-length user packets
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undifferentiated making it easy to switch to other suppliers‚ and customer’s purchases represent a major part of the company’s total revenue. Substitute products for Usha Martin is relatively low since substitute products prices are higher‚ causing switching costs to be high and competitors does not have the potential to increase market penetration or production capacity like Usha Martin. The rivalry among its competitors is not as intense as the number of competitors are not equal in size and demand
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mmTASK 1 a) Explain the following types of data communication networks and their applications * Public switched telephone network (PSTN) * Local area networks (LANs) * Metropolitan area networks (MANs) * Wide area networks (WANs) * Packet switched data network (PSDN)‚ * Integrated services digital network (ISDN) Public switched telephone network (PSTN) Public Switched telephone network (PSTN) is the global collection of interconnects originally designed to
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also continuously saving the data. However‚ if anyone can access it‚ and automatic updates does not happen then information or similar creative ideas will become redundant or a ideas will not stay on tack. 4. (TCO D) How does packet switching work? Packet switching is breaking data files into small chunks to send across different networks‚ then the data is reassembled making it whole again. i.e. Sending an e-mail. From your computer‚ it gets broken down; sends to a router‚ that router sends small
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business especially car business. To make sure customer can get their car immediately after purchased‚ company must have prepared large enough of storage to store cars that can satisfy customers and also continuous daily business. Low switching cost The switching cost for other transport are low due to the government policy that want to protect their own brand vehicle (proton and produa). Government charging high import tax for foreign vehicles including Toyota which UMW franchising. This made the
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http://www.mcafee.cc/Papers/PDF/Barriers2Entry.pdf Economic and Antitrust Barriers to Entry R. Preston McAfee‚ Hugo M. Mialon‚ and Michael A. Williams1 December 1‚ 2003 Abstract We review the extensive literature on barriers to entry in law and economics; we introduce four concepts‚ namely economic‚ antitrust‚ primary‚ and ancillary barriers to entry; we employ these concepts to classify a set of well-known structural characteristics of markets and competitive tactics by incumbents; and
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about convergence‚ people tend to enhance interpersonal similarities and reduce uncertainties. The effect of converging towards or approximately to another can increase liking and enable him or her to be seen more competent and credible. It includes switching to the other’s language or dialect‚ or assuming the same level of the other’s interruptions‚ speech rate‚ posture and so forth. When engaging conversation‚ if the individuals or in-group identity is viewed more than the out-group identity‚ there
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Demarco Smith DSC 1030-3 Tactical Communications - 3 Individual Work: Week 4 What were the original methods of switching telephone calls? How does a rotary dial phone operate? How does a touch tone phone operate? What are some historic and modern methods used to transmit telephone signals? The original methods of switching telephones came as soon as a public interest in the telephone arrived. This has occurred in 1877‚ and in less than a year after Bells original patent had been granted
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