I have good shielding properties and can transmit large numbers of video channels, such as those found on cable television services.
What is coaxial cable?
100
An interconnected group of computers and computer equipment using either wires or radio waves that can share data and computing resources
What is a computer network?
100
I have five layers not seven.
What is TCP/IP Protocol Suite?
100
Connecting a computer to peripheral devices
What is interfacing?
100
I am a problem for both analog and digital signals
What is noise?
200
Contains one or more pairs of wires and they are wound around each other?
What is twisted pair wire?
200
Network that spans a room, a floor within a building, or an entire buidling.
What is a local area network or LAN?
200
Physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, and application
What are the seven layers of the OSI Model?
200
In communication both sides can talk but only one at a time
What is half duplex?
200
If you install proper shielding on cables I will be prevented
What is crosstalk?
300
My kind of cable is made of glass.
What is fiber optic cable?
300
Large network encompassing parts of states, multiple states, countries, and the world.
What is a wide area network or WAN?
300
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) created this reference model in an attempt to standardize the design of communication systems and the interoperability between their components.
What is the OSI Model?
300
In communication both sides can talk at the same time
What is full duplex?
300
I am a device that interconnects two segments of local area networks and acts as a filter.
What is a switch?
400
My cable come in two types, thick and thin and also can carry two types of signals baseband and broadband.
What is coaxial cable?
400
Includes devices such as laptops, desktops, smart cell phones, music players, and wireless connections.
What is personal area network or PAN?
400
This layer of the OSI model makes sure the data received at the very end of a transmission is exactly the same as the data originally transmitted.
What is the transport layer?
400
Computer designers created a new interface that is flexible and fast and supports may peripheral devices
What is a USB?
400
I am an electronic device that performs the necessary signal conversions and protocol operations that allow the workstation or computer to send and receive data on the network.
What is a NIC or network interface card.
500
My cable can transmit data at over 100 Gbps (that's 100 billion bits per second!) over several kilometers)
What is fiber optic cable?
500
Some large corporations use me to allow people to store data and applications, music and books.
What is cloud-computing or network cloud?
500
This is the bottom layer in the OSI model—the layer that handles the transmission of bits over a communications channel.
What is the physical layer?
500
Mechanical, electrical, functional, and procedural
What are the four components of an interface?
500
I am a device that is used to connect local area networks to wide area networks.