Network Categories
Covers multiple buildings in a large campus or a portion of a city, such as a downtown area.
What is MAN (metropolitan area network)?
The least expensive and slowest connection to the Internet.
What is Dial-Up?
Measure of the maximum data transmission rate.
What is bandwidth?
Used by computers to find each other on a network.
What is an IP address?
Device that manages traffic between two or more networks
What is a router?
Covers a small local area, such as a home, office, or a small group of buildings.
What is LAN (local area network)?
Uses ordinary copper phone lines and a range of frequencies on the copper wire that are not used by voice.
What is DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)?
An organization that provides a myriad of services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.
What is an Internet Service Provider(ISP)?
Any device, such as a desktop computer, laptop, or printer, on a network that requests or serves up data or services to other devices.
What is a host?
Consists of two or more computers that are linked in order to share resources.
What is a Network?
Covers a large geographical area and is made up of many smaller networks.
What WAN (wide area network)?
Broadband technology uses cable TV lines and is always connected.
What is Cable Internet?
Actual network transmission speed.
What is data throughput?
An IP address that is manually assigned to the computer.
What is a static IP address?
Connection that protects data by encrypting it from the time it leaves the remote computer until it reaches a server on the corporate network, and vice versa.
What is VPN (Virtual Private Network)?
Consists of many wireless devices communicating directly with each other rather than through a single, central device.
What is WMN (wireless mesh network)?
Technology connects a dedicated line, a point-to-point (PTP) connection, from your ISP to your place of business or residence.
What is Fiber Optic?
Delays in network transmissions.
What is latency?
The address on the router that allows traffic to move from the local network to a different network or the Internet.
What is a default gateway?
Feature of a SOHO router which automatically assigns IP address information to network clients with either wired or wireless connections.
What is a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server?
Consists of personal devices such as cell phones and laptop computers communicating at close range.
What is PAN (personal area network)?
Used in remote areas and requires line-of-sight wireless connectivity without obstruction from mountains, trees, and tall buildings.
What is satellite?
A networking technology that carries more than one type of signal on the same cabling infrastructure, such as DSL and telephone OR cable Internet and TV.
What is broadband?
An IP address that is provided by the DHCP.
What is a dynamic IP address?
Allows devices to connect to the local network via ethernet.
What is a switch?