Chapter 2 Flashcards
Devices using this kind of cabling transmit data over electrical circuits via the copper wires inside the cable.
UTP (Usheilded Twisted Pair)
________ Refers to a family of LAN standards that together define the physical and data-link layers of the world’s most popular wired LAN technology.
Ethernet
Ethernet LAN _______ , which provides many physical ports into which cables can be connected.
Switch
The _______ connects the LAN to the _________ , in this case, the internet.
Router, WAN
__________refers to an entire family of standards. Some standards define the specifics of how to send data over a particular type of cabling, and at a particular speed. Other standards define protocols, or rules, that the _______ nodes must follow to be a part of an _________ LAN
Ethernet
What are the three most commonly used Ethernet standards
10BASE-T (Ethernet), 100BASE-T (Fast Ethernet, or FE), and 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet, or GE)
To send data, the two devices follow some rules called an _________ _____________. The idea works a lot like when two people talk using the same language: The speaker says some words in a particular language, and the listener, because she speaks the same language, can understand the spoken words. With an encoding scheme, the transmitting node changes the electrical signal over time, while the other node, the receiver, using the same rules, interprets those changes as either 0s or 1s.
Encoding Scheme
if the link needs a crossover cable, but the installer connected a straight-through cable, this feature can sense the incorrect pinout, and then redirect the electrical signals to the correct pairs to compensate so that the link works. The Ethernet standard calls this feature ________________
Auto-MDIX
This is is when frames are sent to ALL devices on an ethernet LAN.
Broadcast Address
The inner part of a fiber-optic cable, light reflects off of and back into the core.
Cladding
This is the part of a fiber-optic cable that allows for the tranmission of light , which is how data travels through a fiber-optic cable.
core
when connecting two devices that transmit on the same pins, you then need another type of cabling pinout called a _____________ pinout. This special kind of pinout crosses the pair at the transmit pins on each device to the receive pins on the opposite device
Crossover Cable
When electrical current passes over any wire, it creates __________________ that interferes with the electrical signals in nearby wires, including the wires in the same cable. (EMI between wire pairs in the same cable is called crosstalk.)
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
___________ refers to a family of LAN standards that together define the physical and data-link layers of the world’s most popular wired LAN technology.
Ethernet
__________________, also called Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, are 6-byte-long (48-bit-long) binary numbers. For convenience, most computers list MAC addresses as 12-digit hexadecimal numbers. Cisco devices typically add some periods to the number for easier readability as well; for example, a Cisco switch might list a MAC address as 0000.0C12.3456
Ethernet Addresses