Across
- 6. A transmission method that sends digital signals in which each bit of data is represented by a pulse of electricity (on copper media) or light (on fiber-optic media)
- 8. The set of rules for each networking technology is referred to as its _____
- 12. A type of ethernet that has been the mainstay of Ethernet networks since the early 1990s
- 13. The extent to which signals in an Ethernet bus topology network are propagated is called a ________
- 17. The arrangement of cabling and how cables connect one device to another in a network are considered the network’s _____
- 18. When electricity bounces off the end of a cable and back in the other direction
- 19. a direct link between two devices where it’s most often used in WANs, in which a device on a business’s network has a dedicated link to a telecommunication provider
- 20. An arrangement in which a central device communicates with two or more other devices, and all communication goes through the central device
Down
- 1. A type of ethernet that uses two strands of fiber-optic cable, is often the best choice of network technology
- 2. A _________ occurs if two or more devices on the same medium transmit simultaneously
- 3. A system that uses analog techniques to encode binary 1s and 0s across a continuous range of values
- 4. The most common Ethernet variety
- 5. cabling used to communicate between LANs or between switches
- 7. like a bus, in that devices are daisy-chained one to another, but instead of terminating each end, the cabling is brought around from the last device back to the first device to form a ring
- 9. (Acronym) The media access method that Ethernet uses in half-duplex mode is _____
- 10. Point-to-point topologies are also used with wireless networks in what is called a _____
- 11. Connects each device to every other device in a network
- 14. The errorchecking code in an Ethernet frame’s trailer
- 15. The path data travels between computers on a network is considered the network’s _____
- 16. An electrical component called a “resistor” that absorbs the signal instead of allowing it to bounce back up the wire
