Exam 9: Introduction to Metropolitan Area Networks and Wide Area Networks

How is routing through a wide area network accomplished?

____________________ is a data transfer service that can connect your business to another business (or businesses)using a standard Ethernet connection.

A ____ network application provides some guarantee that information traveling through the network will be delivered to the intended receiver in the same order in which it was transmitted.

Any network is as strong as its strongest link.

A(n)____________________ network application provides some guarantee that information traveling through the network will not be lost.

How does a virtual circuit packet-switched network work?

A wide area network's sub-network,or cloud,may be categorized by the way it transfers information from one end of the sub-network to the other.

A feature that is fairly common in ____ is the ability of a user to dynamically allocate more bandwidth on demand.

Most MANs are supported by Ethernet ring technology.

A(n)____________________ network is a sub-network in which a dedicated circuit is established between sender and receiver,and all data passes over this circuit.

A ____ network is the only network that offers a dedicated path.

LANs cover much greater distances than MANs do.

The speed at which a failover is performed is the ____________________.

A wide area network's underlying sub-network consists of multiple nodes,each with multiple possible connections to other nodes within the sub-network.

____________________ routing is a dynamic technique in which routing tables react to network fluctuations,such as congestion and node/link failure.

Local area network Ethernet allows users to set their own data transfer rates.

____ routing involves storing all the routing information at one central location.

A network that expands beyond a metropolitan area is a ____ area network.

____ is advantageous when a copy of a packet needs to get to all nodes.

Provide and explain an example of a circuit-switched network.