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Understanding PSTN and HTML Basics

This document contains notes from a lecture on Internet Technologies. It discusses the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and how internet data is transmitted over telephone networks using the PSTN. It also describes submarine cables and their use for transmitting telecommunications between countries, listing 5 submarine cable landing stations in Sri Lanka. Finally, it provides an introduction to HTML including how to write basic HTML tags to create a simple web page and display it locally.
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Understanding PSTN and HTML Basics

This document contains notes from a lecture on Internet Technologies. It discusses the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and how internet data is transmitted over telephone networks using the PSTN. It also describes submarine cables and their use for transmitting telecommunications between countries, listing 5 submarine cable landing stations in Sri Lanka. Finally, it provides an introduction to HTML including how to write basic HTML tags to create a simple web page and display it locally.
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Internet Technologies (IT104071)

Lecture 03

University of Vocational Technology


Attendance
send a message over Zoom chat mentioning your registration number
and official name (name within initial)
Eg. ICT/17/B1/115 P.H.T.S Ananda
PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
• PSTN stands for Public
Switched Telephone
Network or the traditional
circuit-switched telephone
network.
• This is the system that has
been in general use since
the late 1800s. It’s the
aggregation of circuit-
switching telephone
networks that has evolved
from the days of
Alexander Graham Bell.
Internet(data network) over PSTN
Submarine cables
Submarine cables can be divided into two types
1. Submarine communication cable
2. Submarine power cable.

Submarine communication cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to


carry telecommunications between countries. All modern cables are
optical fiber to carry digital payloads, telephone traffic, internet and
private data.
Fiber optic submarine cable(SEA-ME-WE 3) landing at Mt.Lavinia and
use by Sri Lanka Telecom. There is a submarine cable from Colombo to
Maldives and it belongs to Sri Lanka Telecom. There are 5 cable landing
stations are there in Sri Lanka.
Submarine Cable Landing Stations in Sri Lanka
Submarine Cable Landing Stations in Sri Lanka
• References for Submarine cables

(සිංහල) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o-c8uoOhFA
(English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1aFmsKQgk
(English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTBLIYJSzdc
HTML
• Introduction to HTML
• Creating your first web page
• Host your web page in a web server(Ms IIS/ Apache/)
HTML
Introduction to HTML
• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML is the most widely used language on Web to develop web pages.
• HTML was created by Berners-Lee in late 1991 but "HTML 2.0" was the first
standard HTML specification which was published in 1995. HTML 4.01 was
a major version of HTML and it was published in late 1999. Though HTML
4.01 version is widely used but currently we are having HTML-5 version
which is an extension to HTML 4.01, and this version was published in
2012.
• HTML describes the structure of a Web page
• HTML consists of a series of elements
• HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
HTML
Introduction to HTML
• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
• HTML is the most widely used language on Web to develop web
pages.
What is a Markup Language:
A markup language is a computer language that uses tags to define elements
within a document. When the document is processed or display, the markup
language is not shown, and is only used to format the text. A markup
language is not a programming language. The two most popular are markup
languages are HTML and XML. XML is used for storing structured data, rather
than formatting information on a page. HTML is being widely used to format
web pages with the help of different tags available in HTML language.
Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts.
HTML
Basic Structure of a HTML document

<html> • The <html> element is the root element of


<body> an HTML page.
• The <body> element defines the document's
<p>Hello World!</p>
body, and is a container for all the visible
</body> contents, such as headings, paragraphs,
</html> images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.
• The <p> element defines a paragraph
HTML
Lets create our first HTML page. The HTML page/file should be saved
with .html or .htm file extensions.
<html> What is a file extension…?
<body>
<p>Hello World!</p>
(.mp3, .WAV) (.doc, .docx) (.xls, .xlsx)
</body> (mp4,avi,WMV,mkv),
</html> (.JPG, .JPEG), (.c, .cpp), (.htm, .html)
(.zip, .rar) (.PNG, .BMP, .GIF)
A file extension, or filename extension, is a suffix at the end of a computer file. It comes after the period,
and is usually two-four characters long, that helps identify the type of file in operating systems
HTML
Lets create our first HTML page. The HTML page/file should be saved
with .html or .htm file extensions. Check the URL of the web page.
<html>
<body> Use Notepad or Notepad++ as
the text editor.
<p>Hello World!</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML
Display/access your web page in your mobile phone or
another computer in the same local area network.
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Index.html
Attendance
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