A group of computers located in the same general area
What is a LAN (local area network)?
100
End-user's access to the network.
What is the application layer?
100
Standards that emerge in the marketplace and are supported by several vendors but have no official standing.
What is de facto?
100
This terms means that communication networks will one day be everywhere.
What is pervasive networking?
200
In 1874, he developed the concept for the telephone at his father's home in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
A large network to which many networks within an organization are connected.
What is a BN (backbone network)?
200
Physical connection between the sender and the receiver.
What is the physical layer?
200
This is one of the most important standards-making bodies.
What is the ISO (International Organization for Standardization)?
200
The first commercial software that allowed graphical access to the content on the Internet.
What is Mosaic?
300
Until 1968, only these two companies controlled the U.S. telephone system.
What is Bell Telephone/AT&T?
300
A network that usually covers a citywide area.
What is a MAN (metropolitan area network)?
300
This layer performs routing.
What is the network layer?
300
HTTP and HTML are common standards used by this network layer.
What is the application layer.
300
In this topology, all nodes are connected to each other?
What is MESH?
400
In 1969, this network of four computers was started by the U.S. Department of Defense.
What is ARPANET?
400
A network spanning a large geographical area.
What is a WAN (wide area network)?
400
This layer is responsible for moving a message from one computer to the next computer in the network path from the sender to the receiver.
What is the data layer?
400
The network layer uses this common standard.
What is IP or IPX.
400
Refers to a person working on a computer on a different network or another geographic location.
What is a remote user?
500
In 1985, the Canadian government completed its leg of this network to link all Canadian universities from coast to coast and provided connections into the American Internet.
What is BITNET?
500
A type of network that uses the same technologies as the Internet but is open only to those inside the organization.
What is intranet?
500
This layer is responsible for linking the application layer software to the network.
What is the transport layer?
500
This is a common standard for the transport layer.
What is TCP or SPX?
500
The integration of voice, video, and data communications.