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Chapter 11

Infrastructure for

Electronic Commerce

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Learning Objectives

Describe the protocols underlying Internet client/server

applications

Compare the functions and structures of Web browsers and

servers

Discuss the security requirements of Internet and e￾commerce applications, and how are these requirements

fulfilled by various hardware and software systems

Describe the functional requirements for online selling and

what are the specialized services and servers that perform

these functions

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Describe the business functions that Web chat can fulfill

and list some of the commercially available systems that

support chat

Understand the ways in which audio, video and other

multimedia content are being delivered over the Internet

and to what business uses this content is being applied

Learning Objectives (cont.)

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A Network of Networks = Internet

Internet is a network of hundreds of

thousands interconnected networks

Network Service Providers (NSPs)

runs the backbones

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

provide the delivery subnetworks