Exam 6: Telecommunications and Networks

In the pure peer-to-peer architecture of P2P networking, the P2P software connects your PC to a central server with the directory of all users of the network.

Telecommunications and network management software can reside in communications processors, such as multiplexers and routers.

A client/server network of several interconnected local area networks can replace a large mainframe-based network with many end user terminals.

IPv6 supports over 300 trillion trillion trillion addresses.

Companies can create private secure Internet links between themselves, called _______________ private networks.

Supersol discovered that sharing business intelligence with their competition improved the quality of the goods in their warehouses.

In a telecommunications network, a hub is a communications processor that:

Today, ordinary telephone wire is the least used medium for telecommunications.

"Bandwidth" is typically measured in characters per second (CPS).

The Internet is owned by the government of the United States.

The text lists five basic categories of components in a telecommunications network. One of these categories includes telecommunications processors, which:

Communications channels such as microwave, fiber optics, or satellite transmission that provide high-speed transmission rates typically use _______________ channels.

An extranet is a network inside a company that uses Internet technologies to provide a private Internet-like network environment to the firm.

Dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) can split a strand of glass fiber into _____ channels, which enables each strand to carry 5 million calls.

_______________ systems are information systems that use common standards for hardware, software, applications, and networking.

Each IP address is divided into three address classes, which are A, B, and C. Class C addresses are normally owned by large Internet service providers or major corporations. Class A addresses are normally owned by large Internet service providers or major corporations.

Telecommunications-based business applications can help a company overcome all of the following barriers to business success except:

Multiplexers work to increase the number of transmissions possible, while also increasing the number of physical data channels.

We can think of the _______________ as a network made up of millions of smaller, private networks, each with the ability to operate independent of, or in harmony with, all the other millions of connected networks.

Developed to work Internet2, IPv6 increases the IP address size from 32 bits to 256 bits to support more levels of the address hierarchy.