Across
- 2. An equipment room that’s the connection point between IDFs is called a
- 4. ______ LANs use low-powered,two-way radio communication, much like what’s used in taxis, police radios, and other private radio systems.
- 9. _____ (or vertical cabling) interconnects IDFs and MDFs.
- 13. Which is a tool needed to make a patch cable?
- 15. _____ is the location of the cabling and equipment that connects an organization’s network to a third-party telecommunications provider.
- 16. _____ houses servers, routers, switches, and other major network equipment and serves as a connection point for backbone cabling running between IDFs
- 17. Cable ______ means putting RJ-45 plugs on a cable to make a patch cable or punching cable wires into terminal blocks on a jack or patch panel.
- 18. Which conditions requires cables not to exceed a recommended maximum length?
- 19. Which process for representing bit signals on the medium?
- 20. ______ is the term for all the cables and connectors tying a network together.
Down
- 1. ______ runs from the work area’s wall jack to the telecommunications closet and is usually terminated at a patch panel.
- 3. ______ trades electrical pulses for pulses of light to represent bits.
- 5. ______ is a short cable for connecting a computer to an RJ-45 jack or connecting a patch-panel port to a switch or hub.
- 6. Which is a common characteristic of a networking medium?
- 7. At some point on a cabled network, a transmitter/receiver device, called a
- 8. When two cables run side by side,signals traveling down one wire might interfere with signals traveling on the other wire. What is this phenomenon called?
- 10. ______ is a length of cable between two network devices, such as a NIC and a switch.
- 11. ______ wireless networks use infrared light beams to send signals between pairs of devices.
- 12. What characteristic of twisted-pair cabling helps mitigate the effects of crosstalk?
- 14. ______ specifies how cabling should be organized, regardless of themedia type or network architecture.