Across
- 3. (LAN)consists of a computer network at a single site, typically an individual office building or school campus
- 6. an informal term for the transfer of electronic information by physically moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives between computers, rather than transmitting it over a computer network
- 7. Graphical User Interface; a graphics-based operating system interface that uses icons, menus and a mouse (to click on the icon or pull down the menus) to manage interaction with the system
- 9. a measure of how much data you can move through an Internet connection in a given amount of time. It is usually measured in bits-per-second
- 11. The comparison of a graphical user interface to a real-life desktop workspac
- 13. the situation that occurs when two or more data packets are sent simultaneously on equipment that can handle only one transfer at a time resulting in the packets colliding and becoming corrupt
- 14. Short for Windows, Icons, Menus and a Pointer: the common features of most graphical user interfaces
Down
- 1. pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems
- 2. small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information
- 4. a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks
- 5. (MAC)address is a unique identifPacket - Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information.
- 8. a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN)
- 10. the arrangement of the devices on a computer network
- 12. a networking device that connects devices on a computer network by using packet switching to receive and forward data to the destination device