Exam 3: Connecting the Dots - Transporting Information Across the Superhighway

The channel connection between two central office switches is called a(n) ________.

Which of the following codes is not essential when placing a call to someone in another country?

The most complicated means of completing connections for a call between Portland and Philadelphia occurs when:

The acronym ________ refers to the fact that a long distance provider must have a presence in an area in order to route calls onto their network.

A POP must have ________ connecting it to the local telephone company in order to pass the traffic to the local network.

________ circuits are considered to be the backbone of the network used to carry voice and data traffic.

A DLEC is similar to a CLEC except that the DLEC offers only data services in the local telephone network.

The greater the distance when placing a call, the longer it takes for the telephone to ring at the other end.

________ is the acronym for local telephone companies that served an area after the 1996 Telecom Act.

The information traveling on the medium behaves the same, looks the same, and sounds the same whether it moves on fiber, copper, or air.

The corner ATM machine is a good example of a system that uses a:

It is doubtful that any Third World countries will ever open up their telephone networks to competition and thereby allow long distance companies to directly interconnect.

What kind of circuits are more commonly used for telephone networks in the United States?

An agreement established between a country and a carrier allowing the carrier to legally terminate international calls from its network into the country's network is known as a(n) ________ agreement.

Many smaller long distance carriers do not have end-to-end networks across the country and therefore must use third-party networks to complete connections.

A(n) ________ switch is a switch that has the ability to switch long distance calls

The Internet is the largest ________ network deployed today.

The organization responsible for defining the Feature Groups that are used to connect the many long distance carriers with the local telephone companies is the National Exchange Carrier Association of the:

A dedicated data circuit is one that is:

A trunk must remain in use for the duration of a call.