Exam 4: Networks for Efficient Operations and Sustainability

A fully deployed smart grid has the potential of saving roughly $40 to $100 and up to 592 pounds of CO2 emissions per consumer per year in the U.S. ,according to the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative.

List and explain the four factors to consider when evaluating a mobile network?

IPv6 addresses have 6 groups of alphanumeric characters,which allow for 2^106 addresses.

The dramatic growth in the number of power data centers,cell towers,base stations,recharge mobiles,and so on is damaging the environment because of increased energy consumption and related pollution.

Scientists have concluded that increases in ________ from human activities have thrown Earth's natural carbon cycle off balance,increasing global temperatures and changing the planet's climate.

There are three general types of mobile networks: wide area networks (WANs),____________,and local area networks (LANs).

Wi-Fi is a short-range wireless communications technology found in billions of devices,such as smartphones,computers,medical devices,and home entertainment products.

Extranets are used within a company for data access,sharing,and collaboration.They are portals or gateways that provide easy and inexpensive browsing and search capabilities.

Each device attached to a network has a unique IP address that enables it to send and receive files.

The main international treaty on climate change is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).In 2010 parties to the UNFCCC agreed that future global warming should be limited to below 2°C.

As technologies that make up the mobile infrastructure evolve,identifying strategic technologies and avoiding wasted investments require more ad hoc adoption of mobile devices and network infrastructure.

One strategy for regulating network use is to ___________ traffic which means data and apps that are time-delay sensitive are given priority on the network

Unilever's web-based database,the Transportation Business Center (TBC),provides its 30 contract carriers with site specification requirements about pick-up and delivery locations.The TBC contains information such as contact names and phone numbers,operating hours,the number of dock doors at a location,the height of the dock doors,how to make an appointment to deliver or pick up shipments,pallet configuration,and other special requirements.Unilever's practice of providing this kind of information over a network with its carriers is an example of:

Basic functions of business networks are all of the following except _______.

The report Looking Further with Ford-2014 Trends identifies trends in how the technology explosion will affect consumer choices and behaviors.Which is not one of those trends?

When security issues are a special concern,companies want to take extra steps to make sure that transmissions can't be intercepted or compromised.In these situations they will use a network that encrypts the packets before they are transferred over the network.This solution is called a(n)___________________.

To insure QoS of a network,an alternative to "prioritizing traffic" is to __________,which means holding back traffic from non-time sensitive apps so that apps like voice and video run more effectively.

Enterprises are moving away from ad hoc adoption of mobile devices and network infrastructure to a more __________ planning build-out of their mobile capabilities.

While the growth of computer networks and mobile computing has resulted in many benefits to both individual users and organizations,it has also generated negative consequences.Which of the following is not a negative ethical or sustainability consequence?

Network capacity is measured in terms of its throughput,or bandwidth