Packet-Switching Basics and Advantages Quiz

Mesh topology is a type of network topology where all devices are connected to a central hub.

In a circuit-switched network, a dedicated communication path is established between two devices for the duration of the communication.

Line efficiency is a measure of how well the available bandwidth of a communication line is utilized.

Packet-switching involves breaking data into packets that travel independently over various routes to reach the destination.

Wired transmission media can include metallic wires and fiber optics, which encode data into patterns of electrical impulses.

Wireless transmission media uses encoding patterns of electrical impulses for communication.

Network Interface Card (NIC) is the hardware component that directly accesses the network.

End devices are where messages originate from but do not receive messages.

A repeater is an application network device used to connect different networks together.

A switch is an internetworking device used to connect multiple networks together.