Week 5 Broadband Connections

Question 1

Broadband

Answer 1

Any connectivity technology that isn’t dial up internet

Question 2

T-carrier technologies

Answer 2

Originally invented by AT&T in order to transmit multiple phone calls over a single link

Question 3

T-1

Answer 3

Twisted pair copper connection or Transmission System 1

Question 4

T3

Answer 4

Has 28 T1

Question 5

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)

Answer 5

A frequency range that didn’t interfere with normal phone calls

Question 6

Digital subscriber line access multiplexers (DSLAMs)

Answer 6

Are like modems for DSL

Question 7

What are the 2 most common DSL?

Answer 7

ADSL
SDSL

Question 8

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)

Answer 8

Connection feature different speeds for outbound and incoming data.
(Faster download speed and slower upload speed)

Question 9

Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL)

Answer 9

Upload and download speed are the same

Question 10

SDSL upper cap is:

Answer 10

1.544 megabits a second the same as T1

Question 11

The connection from your home or business goes to:

Answer 11

Central office or CO

Question 12

Cable modem

Answer 12

A device that sits at the edge of a consumer’s network and connects it to the cable modem termination system or CMTS

Question 13

FTTX stands for

Answer 13

Fiber to the x

Question 14

FTTN stands for

Answer 14

Fiber to the neighborhood

Question 15

FTTB (fiber to the building)

Answer 15

Used for data delivery to an individual building

Question 16

FTTH (fiber to the home)

Answer 16

Each individual neighborhood or apartment building

Question 17

FTTP

Answer 17

Fiber to the premise

Question 18

Optical Network Terminator (ONT)

Answer 18

Converts data from protocols the fiber network can understand, to those that more traditional, twisted pair copper networks can understand

Question 19

Point to point protocol (PPP)

Answer 19

Encapsulates data, so any PPP configured devices can communicate without issue

Question 20

Point to point over Ethernet (PPPoE)

Answer 20

Extra layer of encapsulation for standard PPP frames, to enable data to be sent over Ethernet connections

Question 21

Cable internet has:

Answer 21

Broadband connections
Shared bandwidth connections

Question 22

Sub protocol for PPP

Answer 22

Network control protocol(NCP)
Link control protocol (LCP)

Question 23

What is the demarcation point for fiber technologies?

Answer 23

ONT