Convergence

In general, convergence is a coming together of two or more distinct entities or phenomena. Convergence is increasingly prevalent in the IT world; in this context the term refers to the combination of two or more different technologies in a single device.


Taking pictures with a cell phone and surfing the Web on a television are two of the most common examples of this trend. Convergence may influence consumers to accept new technologies. Our professor talk about the Speed in which we receive and send data begins with DSL, 14.1, 28.8, 5.6, T1 and T2 kilobytes per seconds. He also talked about the 8080 chip 286, 388, 486, Pentium, dual core and Qard core.
          

Early in the 21st century, home LAN convergence so rapidly integrated home routers and wireless routers , and DSl modems that users were hard put to identify the resulting box they used to connect their computers to their Internet service. 


A general term for such a combined device is a residential gateway. The historical roots of convergence can be traced back to the emergence of mobile telephone and the internet, although the term properly applies only from the point in marketing history when fixed and mobile telephony began to be offered by operators as joined products. Fixed and mobile operators were, for most of the 1990s, independent companies. Even when the same organization marketed both products, these were sold and serviced independently.