Block 2 Unit 2 Flashcards
A small network usually confined to a single building or group of buildings and normally doesn’t exceed two kilometers is a/an_____?
LAN
What is MAN?
A network designed to cover the geographic area the size of a town or city.
A geographically dispersed network that can cover across the country or worldwide is know as?
WAN
How does a wired network provide wireless connection?
Access point
What is is called when you have a very small network utilizing wireless devices such as Bluetooth?
WPAN
What allows for communication between wireless networks?
Wireless-Wireline Interoperability
What is the difference between autonomous access points and lightweight access points?
Lightweight Access Points have limited software and require WLAN controllers
Switches while autonomous access points have all the software required to manage these processes
What are two types of filtering available for wireless/wireline access points?
Protocol filtering and MAC filtering
___________ limits access at the packet frame layer. Blocks access from certain packet types based on programmed settings.
Protocol Filtering
Mac Filtering
Devices are authorized access to the AP based on the MAC address of each device being registered on the AP.
Which network is secure, resilient, scalable, voice and/or data network created over public lines?
VPN
A VPN creates a private connection by using ______ protocol through a process called tunneling?
IPSEC
Which technology allows two-way video and audio transmission between two or more locations?
Video teleconferencing
What type of data may be shared over video teleconference?
Computer, video, audio, documents, etc.
What is the way information is passed through the network is the _______ topology.
Logical
