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- 3. A multiplexor that un-multiplexes the data stream and delivers the individual streams to the appropriate devices
- 4. A number indicating a protocol's reliability
- 6. A multiplexing technique where binary 1s and 0s are replaced with larger, unique binary sequences to allow multiple user to share a common set of frequencies
- 8. A set of unused frequencies between 2 channels on a frequency division multiplexed system
- 13. A adaptive routing technique in which routing tables react to network fluctuations when calculating the best paths between networks
- 15. A second Generation mobile telephone technology that is based on a form of time division multiplexing
- 16. A transitional cellular network technology between 3G and 4G that takes advantage of some improved 4G technologies to exceed 3G speeds
- 19. A type of routing protocol that enables routers to share performance and status information about their connected links with routers throughout the network
- 23. The device that combines multiple input signals for transmission over a single medium and then demultiplexes the composite signal back into multiple signals
- 24. An expensive form of wavelength division multiplexing that involves the transfer of a large number of data streams over a single optical fiber using multiple lasers emitting light of different wavelengths
- 26. Assigning non-overlapping frequency ranges to different signals or to each user of a medium
- 28. The use of one or more fixed routes manually added to the routing table, often when the network is installed
- 30. 4th generation mobile phone service characterized by an all-IP network for both data and voice transmission
- 31. A path vector routing protocol that is the only routing protocol used on the open Internet
- 32. A compression technique that offers lossless compression by creating a dictionary of character strings and associated codes
- 33. A compression technique in which data is compressed and then decompressed but doesn't return the original data
- 36. A compression technique in which data is compressed and the decompressed such that the original data is returned
- 38. Early cellular phone networks
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- 1. The multiplexing of multiple data streams onto a single fiber-optic cable through the use of lasers emitting lights of varying wavelength
- 2. The simplest type of routing protocols; used to determine the best route for data based on the distance to a destination
- 5. A form of multiplexing that relies on multiple antennae transmitting and receiving in different locations so that signals are separated by some distance in space
- 7. A multiplexing technique that gives each incoming source a turn to transmit, proceeding through the sources in round-robin fashion
- 9. A technique commonly used to compress images
- 10. A path or connection typically supporting one user
- 11. The process of a network reconfiguring itself if a network failure is detected
- 12. A compression technique in which a commonly occurring symbol in a data set is replaced with a simpler character and a count of how many times that symbol occurs
- 14. A database stored in a router's memory that maintains information about the location of hosts and networks and the best paths for forwarding messages between them
- 17. A link state routing protocol that uses a best-path algorithm
- 18. A routing protocols that exhibits characteristics of both distance vector and link state routing protocols
- 20. distance vector protocols that use hop count as their routing metric and only allow up to 15 hops
- 21. Modern multiplexing technology technology that combines FDM and TDM techniques and takes advantage of mathematical manipulation of wavelengths to compress multiple signals within a smaller bandwidth
- 22. The application of multiplexing in the support of many users at one time
- 25. Techniques used to decrease the demand on limited WAN resources and increase the effective speed of data transmissions over WAN connections
- 27. 3rd generation mobile phone service released in the early 2000s that supported up to 384 Kbps
- 28. A form of time division multiplexing in which the multiplexor creates a data packet of only those devices that have something to transmit
- 29. A multiplexing technique in which the sharing of a signal is accomplished by dividing the available transmissions on a medium among the medium's users
- 34. A compression/encryption technique that allows a high quality audio sample to be reduced to a much smaller sized file
- 35. A link state routing protocol that improves on some of the limitations of RIP and con coexist with RIP on a network
- 37. An advanced distance vector routing protocol developed by Cisco that combines some of the features of a link state routing protocols and so is sometimes referred to as a hybrid protocol