Ch. 4 LAN Test

<p>Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and variations of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contains only a single carrier on the bus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uses a fast-switching matrix for switching</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data highways</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Costly disk storage</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Several standards including FOUNDATION Fieldbus, PROFIBUS and PROFINET</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When it owns the medium of transmission, infrastructure, and three or more devices in communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Variable size packet networks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Point-to-point communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Smart' network system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Smart' devices and fieldbuses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Smart' devices connected by a local area network</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Open Systems Interconnect ISO 7498 model</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Baseband systems have a single channel, while broadband systems have multiple channels</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All linked devices input to the computer and the computer outputs to all linked devices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The failure of a node to bypass when it’s inactive is not necessarily devastating to network operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Copper, fiber optic, and wireless</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The original 802.11 standard provided for 1 or 2 Mbps transmission, while standard 802.11a provided for higher data speeds</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Each device must be active on the ring or there must be some provision for bypassing the device</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The physical layout and the logical connections between intermediary and end devices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it was already installed and could lead to tremendous cost savings if used for networking</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Powerful computers with large numbers of Ethernet network interface cards</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Star topology</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fiber optic cable</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The way in which the network operating software views the dataflow of a device</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regenerates the input signal to extend a particular segment of a network</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Boosts a degraded signal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning bridges</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bridge connects two network segments while switch learns MAC addresses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contains logic that examines Layers 1, 2, and 3 information and connects two or more networks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Works as a bridge and as a router</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Performs protocol conversion to allow for data exchange between incompatible networks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determining who should speak, who should listen, and under what conditions on the network</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method for asking one or more secondary nodes if they have any traffic to send</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Event-driven polling</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making the connection between the local autonomous network and the Internet</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Performing protocol conversion to allow for data exchange between incompatible networks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11ad</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11af</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11ac</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.16 WiMAX</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wireless Mesh Networks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11a</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11b</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11b</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11a</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11n</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Made up of radio nodes organized into a mesh topology with mesh clients often being laptops, cell phones, and other wireless devices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>100 m</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10GBASE-T</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sending and receiving 1s and 0s by arranging them into frames</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deterministic operation even at heavy loads</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Placing addressed packets on the media without establishing a persistent data channel</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>550 m and 5 km</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Framing data blocks or packets</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shielded twisted-pair cable</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>100 m</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shielded twisted-pair cable</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>26 m</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10GBASE-T</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determining LAN additions, deletions, and security</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deterministic operation at heavy loads</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uses token passing as an access method</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Connectionless' service places addressed packets on the media without establishing a persistent data channel</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frame Relay</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Modulation-demodulation used, i.e., if it uses a carrier signal and data modulation/demodulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>802.11ac</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Placing and retrieving information without errors on the Physical layer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By waiting until one of the stations raises an interrupt or signals its intent to transmit</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deterministic access method where each station knows when the token will arrive</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>46 octets</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10 Mbps, Baseband, 500 m end-to-end coverage</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Category 5 cable instead of Category 3</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased end-to-end coverage distance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>$1$ Gbps data transfer rate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>$10$ Mbps Ethernet over fiber with a maximum distance of nearly $2$ km</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide deterministic performance and low cost transmission in LANs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Easier handling but requires a BNC 'T' connector at each end node</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of fiber optics instead of twisted pair cables</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It allows for easy termination in $50$-ohm precision resistors at each end node</p> Signup and view all the answers