lesson 24 vocab

5. the worlds collection of interconnected commercial and government-owned voice-oriented systems.
6. a recent wireless technology that can deliver maximum speeds of up to 7 Mbpa to your cel phone or home computer.
7. a series of connected personal computers, workstations, and other devices within a confined space.
9. highend programs designed to provide network control and include special functions for connecting computers and other devices into a network.
13. this thing protects individual companies networks from external networks.
15. a type of fiber-optic telephone line that can transmit up to 1.544 mb per second.
16. an internet connection technology that provides for the transfer of information to a computer at a high speed bandwidth over ordinary copper telephone lines.
17. a variation of a LAN that uses no physical wires.
18. link from one computer to another through which data can be transmitted.
19. all computers are equal and no computer is designated as the server.
20. a device on the network.
21. a system that allows specific users outside of the organization to access internal info systems.
22. a device that converts analog signals to digital.
23. software program such as Internet Explorer.
25. 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 destination.

1. this process ensures security, administrative control, and caching service.
2. a worldwide system composed of 1000s of smaller networks.
3. a system that allows exclusive use of people within an organization.
4. something that examines a fingerprint, a voice pattern, or parts of the eye.
8. people who break into computer systems to steal services and info.
10. hardware that can be one of many types of servers.
11. a software architectural model relationship.
12. provides connection speeds more than 30 times faster than dial up connections.
14. a device that uses coaxial cable to send and receive data.
17. a computer network tuhat coveres a large geographical area.
24. a small inexpensive device that joins multiple computers together.