Across
- 1. Cable run on the external walls of a building or between two buildings. This makes the cable vulnerable to different types of weathering.
- 4. Protocol used to automatically assign IP addressing information to hosts that have not been configured manually.
- 9. Notational system with two values per digit, zero and one.
- 11. Instructions that the print device can use to create an image on the page.
- 12. Cooling substance applied between a component and heat sink to optimize heat transfer.
- 15. Secure tunnel created between two endpoints connected via an unsecure transport network.
- 16. Metal and plastic surfaces can allow a charge to build up.
- 18. Adapter card that provides one or more Ethernet ports for connecting hosts to a network so that they can exchange data over a link.
- 19. Software instructions embedded on a hardware device such as a computer motherboard.
- 20. Network design that spans a large geographical area.
- 21. Legacy video interface that supports digital only or digital and analog signaling.
- 22. A group of computers connected by cabling and one or more network switches that are all installed at a single geographical location.
- 23. Means of encoding information into passive tags, which can be energized and read by radio waves from a reader device.
- 24. Logical network segment comprising a broadcast domain established using a feature of managed switches to assign each port an ID.
Down
- 2. Application protocol used to send mail between hosts on the Internet.
- 3. Persistent mass storage device implemented using flash memory.
- 5. Processors embedded on a motherboard to support the operation of the CPU and implementing various controllers.
- 6. Code that provides support for a specific model of hardware component for a given operating system.
- 7. Product life cycle phase where mainstream vendor support is no longer available.
- 8. Legacy 32-bit firmware type that initializes hardware and provides a system setup interface for configuring boot devices and other hardware settings.
- 10. Designer of CPU and chipset architectures widely used in mobile devices.
- 12. Specially formulated compound to impart dye to paper through an electrographic process.
- 13. Standard PC case, motherboard, and power supply specification.
- 14. Cable for use in building voids designed to be fire-resistant and to produce a minimal amount of smoke if burned.
- 15. Computing environment where multiple independent operating systems can be installed to a single hardware platform and run simultaneously.
- 17. Standard form factor for system memory.