This week's topic was called "Communications and Network" and once again, the concepts in the lectures were explained very clearly. The overall content was kind of dry though, as the lectures dealt with technical background of communication and network devices or softwares. But nevertheless it was good to get some of these concepts explained, as e.g. the part about internet security which should be more present in people's mind than it is at the moment.
What I especially liked was the lecture about communcaition applications, as this is actually a very important part of my study abroad here. I am almost every day connected to my home country via these communcation applications like instant messengers, emails or VoIP (Voice over IP). In particular this last application, VoIP, which I use in the form of Skype is very important to me. The fact that people who are located in different party of the world can talk to and even see each other for free over the internet is quiet amazing and very useful for me. Of course you have some set up costs, like a video camera, or a microphone, but these are only minor costs compared to the huge benefits they deliver in the end.
But not only for me, also in today's business environment I think that such applications like Skype will become more and more important and useful. There is e.g. the possibility to use Skype for videoconferences, which makes communications among business partners very convenient. As more and more processes of a firm are oursorced and firms become more and mroe international, people who are widespread over the world will need to communicate frequently. And that is exactly where these communication applications come into play. Therefore I think the topic of this week was very up-to-date and important, although it was a lot of information for just one week.
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