Across
- 1. A recent wireless technology that can deliver maximum speeds of up to 7 Mbps to your cell phone, home computer, or car. Stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
- 5. An internet connection technology that provides for the transfer of information to a computer at a high-speed bandwidth over an ordinary copper telephone line
- 9. Computer configuration in which one or more computers on the network acts as a server
- 11. Link from one computer to another through which data can be transmitted
- 12. The world's collection of interconnected commercial and government-owned voice-oriented systems
- 14. High-end programs designed to provide network control and include special functions for connecting computers and other devices into a network
- 15. Expert computer user who invades someone else's computer either for personal gain or simply for the satisfaction of being able to do it
- 18. A computer that handles requests for data, email, file transfers, and other network services from other computers (clients)
- 21. Communications hardware device that favilitates the transmission of data
- 22. A computer that uses the services of another program
- 24. A server that acts as an intermediary between a user and the internet
- 25. Computer network that covers a large geographic area. Most WANs are made up of several connected LANs
Down
- 2. A network designed for the exclusive use of computer users withing an organization that cannot be accessed by users outside the organization
- 3. A type of fiber-optic telephone line that can transport up to 1.544 megabits per second or can be used to transmit 24 digitized voice channels
- 4. measure unique characteristics of a person, such as voice pattern, the iris or retina pattern of the eye or finger print patterns.
- 6. The largest network used as a communication tool
- 7. A combination of hardware and software that creates a buffer between an internal network and the Internet to prevent unauthorized access
- 8. An ISP that provides connection speeds more that 30 times faster than dial-up connections-from 384 Kbps to 2.0 Mbps
- 10. A junction where nformation arrives from connected computers or peripheral devices and is then forwarded in one or more directions to other computers and devices
- 13. A series of connected personal computers, workstations, and other devices, such as printers of scanners, within a confined space, such as an office building
- 16. Computer architecture in which all of the computers on a network are equal and ther is no computer designated as the server
- 17. A variation of a LAN that used no physical wires
- 19. A device that uses coaxial cable to send and receive data
- 20. A device that directs traffic on a network by dividing data into smaller packets that travel by different routes and then are reassembled at their destinations
- 23. A network configuration that allows selected outside organizations to access internal information systems
- 26. A device on the network