Data Communications : Components, protocols Components   Outcome : Audience will be able to i.      differentiate between data and information ii.      To name various components of a communication system iii.      To describe the characteristics of the effective communication iv.      To differentiate between protocol and standard v.      To know various standards organization   Data Data is considered to be raw data. It represents ‘values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items.’ It may be in the form of numbers, letters, or a set of characters. Data is often collected via measurements. In data computing or data processing, data is represented by in a structure, such as tabular data, data tree, a data graph, etc. Categories of Data Data can be analog data or digital data- analog data refers