Terms
A group of interconnected devices capable of sending and receiving data.
What is a Network?
An agreed upon set of rules the specify the behavior of some system.
What is a Protocol?
Large messages are divided into these chunks and sent out over a network. They may arrive in order, not in order, or not at all.
What is a packet?
This protocol gives each device a unique number so that it can be identified on the Internet.
What is Internet Protocol (IP)?
This name for the physical network that allows devices to communicate on a global scale.
What is the Internet?
A machine that can run a program. Examples would be computers, tablets, consoles, and sensors.
A group of computing devices working together toward a common goal, or serving a common purpose.
What is a Computing System?
Your device has one of these unique identifiers that allows you to send and receive data.
What is an IP address?
This service is used to connect human readable names like google.com into IP addresses.
What is Domain Name Service (DNS)?
This is type of network connects several smaller hubs to larger ones. You might them at schools or large workplaces.
What is a Local Area Network (LAN)?
Maximum amount of data that can be sent in a fixed amount of time usually measured in bits per second
What is Bandwidth?
Information sent over a network/the internet via a series of packets.
What is a Datastream?
This device device forwards packets between data networks. They are the traffic cops of the internet.
What is a router?
This protocol is used to transfer packets while numbering them so that they can be re-ordered and missing packets can be requested by the receiver. Used when accuracy is of the utmost importance.
What is Transmission Control Protocol?
This type of network might range in size from several city blocks to city-wide in size. An example might be an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
What is a Municipal Area Network (MAN)?
The series of connections between computing devices on a network, starting with a sender, and ending with a receiver?
What is a path?
Included in the event of a failure of another component, or network congestion. An example would be providing multiple paths between devices on a network.
What is Redundancy?
Not the information itself but information about the packet. It would include the ip addresses of the sender and recipient as well as the packet number so it could be reordered.
What is the packet metadata?
This protocol is used to transfer packets without error checking, commonly used in video conferencing and video games, it is utilized when speed is of the essence.
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)?
The type of network connects several large networks and spans a large geographical region. The Internet would be an example.
What is a Wide Area Network?
When describing a network, these are the intermittent stops made along the path between the sender and the receiver.
What are Nodes?
The ability of a system to keep functioning even after one or more of its components have failed.
What is Fault Tolerance?
This "language" is used to tell web browsers how to display information to the user.
What is Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML)?
This protocol is used to retrieve information from a server through a series of GET requests.
What is Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
If the Internet is the physical network that allows devices to communicate globally, this is the collection of pages, documents, and files that comprise the information you can connect to.
What is the World Wide Web (www)?