The amount of data, instructions, and information that can travel over a communications channel.
What is a Bandwidth?
100
A network standard in which computers and devices on the network share or pass a special signal called a token in a unidirectional manner and in preset order.
What is a Token ring?
100
A digital modem that sends and receives digital data over the cable television CATV network.
What is a Cable modem?
200
A local area network that uses no physical wires.
What is a Wireless LAN?
200
Layout of computers and devices in communications network.
What is a Network topology?
200
A type of digital technology that provides high-speed internet connections using regular copper telephone lines.
What is a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)?
300
A network that covers a large geographic area using a communications channel that combines many types of media, such as telephone lines, cables and radio waves.
What is a Wide Area Network?
300
Network standard, specifically a protocol, that defines how two Bluetooth devices use short-range radio waves to transmit data.
What is Bluetooth?
300
A modern that sends digital data and information from a computer to a DSL line and receives digital data and information from a DSL line.
What is a DSL modern?
400
A transmission cable that consists of one or more twisted-pair wires bundled together.
What is a Twist-pair cable?
400
A type of media that transmits multiple signals simultaneously.
What is a Broadband?
400
A single copper wire surrounded by least three layers- insulating material, woven metal, and plastic outer coating.
What is a Coaxial cable?
500
A network standard, specifically a protocol, that defines how messages (data) are routed from one end of a network to the other, ensuring the data arrives correctly.
What is a Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol?
500
A computer on a network that requests resources from the server.
What is a Client?
500
Electrical disturbances that can degrade communications.