2.7 Network Types

Question 1

a LAN can be a building or a group of buildings. T or F?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What deployment strategies are there for LAN? (2)

Answer 2

1. Ethernet
2. 802.11 wireless

(any slower and it isn’t “local”)

Question 3

What is a WAN?

Answer 3

Wide Area Network

spans the globe, connects LANs across a distance, and is much slower than the LAN

Question 4

What are 2 types of WAN technologies?

Answer 4

1. point-to-point serial
2. MPLS

Question 5

Is WAN terrestrial or non-terrestrial?

Answer 5

Both

Question 6

What is a PAN?

Answer 6

Personal Area network
Your own private network

Question 7

What are 3 examples of technology that uses PAN?

Answer 7

1. Bluetooth
2. IR (Infrared wireless)
3. NFC

Question 8

What does MAN stand for?

Answer 8

Metropolitan Area Network

Question 9

What is a MAN?

Answer 9

a network in your city that’s larger than a LAN, often smaller than a WAN

Question 10

It’s common for who to have MAN ownership?

Answer 10

Government

they “own” the right of way (have priority)

Question 11

What does SAN stand for?

Answer 11

Storage Area network

Question 12

What is SAN?

Answer 12

Looks and feels like a local storage device, provides block-level access, and is very efficient at reading and writing

Question 13

A downside is that SAN requires what?

Answer 13

a lot of bandwidth

(that’s why it may use an isolated network with high-speed network technologies)

Question 14

What is a WLAN?

Answer 14

Wireless LAN

802.11 technologies

Question 15

What distance does a WLAN cover?

Answer 15

within a building or just in a limited geographical area

Question 16

How do you expand WLAN coverage?

Answer 16

using multiple access points

(like for a large campus, downtown area, etc)