Exam 6: Telecommunications and Networks

Exotic Food Canada Inc.is a premium food chain with offices all over Ontario.Each of its offices has different information systems.What model of processing will fit Exotic Food Canada Inc.?

A PBX is a telephone switching exchange that serves a single organization, enabling users to share a certain number of outside lines (trunk lines) to make telephone calls to people outside the organization.

What type of networks would a university use to connect all its campus throughout the Greater Toronto Area?

A(n) ____________________ channel permits data transmission in both directions at the same time.

The Droid smartphone is manufactured by Motorola and uses the Android operating system from Apple.

Ali is looking at how to manage office space since he has many more consultants than offices for each one of them.The consultants are equipped with laptops and can work practically everywhere where they can access the Internet.What can he implement that would work?

Transmission media can be divided into two broad categories: guided transmission and wireless transmission.

The ITU and the IEEE are two telecommunications standards-setting organizations in the U.S.

Broadband communications means high-speed, wireless communications.

A metropolitan area network is a telecommunications network that connects users and their computers in a geographical area that spans a campus or city.

Briefly describe how a Wi-Fi network operates.

Ryerson University's Rogers Communication Centre building in Ontario was the first media building in Canada to be wired to handle __________ Ethernet desktop applications.

Which frequency is commonly used for wireless communications?

What did the Government of Canada do in regards to building out the broadband infrastructure in Canada?

A networking protocol is a set of rules, algorithms, messages, and other mechanisms that enables software and hardware in networked devices to communicate effectively.

A(n) ____________________ is a satellite ground station with a dish antenna measuring less than three metres in diameter.

Which of the following is NOT supported by unified communications?

The traditional telephone network is an example of a(n) ____________________ network.

A(n) ____________________ is any computer that sends messages requesting services from the servers on the network.

The process of translating an analog signal to a digital signal is called modulation.