Exam 7: Computer Networks and Cloud Computing

In June 2010, the IEEE ratifiedthe 100-gigabit Ethernet standard.

A ____ makes internetwork connections and provides routing between different WANs.

A(n) ____________________ is a "smarter" device that has knowledge about the nodes located on each separate network.

____________________ has been the single most popular application of networks for the last 30 years.

A digital subscriber line is always symmetric, which means that it has the same transmission speed in the download direction as in the upload direction.

____ are systems that create communities of users who share common interests and activities and which provide multiple methods of online interaction.

NSF planned and built a national network called NSFNet, which used TCP/IP technology identical to the ARPANET.

Define a protocol in the context of networking.

What is groupware?

A modem modulates a standard analog signal called a ____ wave so that it encodes binary information.