Week 16 vocabulary
vocabulary
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- EMI
- Electro Magnetic Interface
- bluetooth
- standard for short range wireless communications and data synchronization between devices
- Appletalk
- Protocol supported by older Apple Macintosh network
- Backbone
- Main line running through or between building from which network decvices and Twister Pair babling runs are connected
- thinnet
- term for coaxial cabkes that are approaximately 1/4" in diameter
- Plenum
- an enclosure in the building that is used to moves the air for heating, cooling or humidity control
- Token Ring
- IBM developed LAN topology that imlements Token Pasing
- CAT5
- twisted pair cable that support 100 mpbs
- protocols
- languages that the computer use to comunicate
- Wi-Fi
- Wireless Fidelity
- UTP
- Unshield Twisted Pair
- multimode Sc connector
- like RJ-45 connectors they push together into a network device
- FDDI
- Fiber distributed data interface, almost exculsively fiber optic for large network
- SMA connector
- similar to ST connector used to connect to Multimode SC connector
- MAC Address
- media acess control address, unique physical address for NICs
- FDDI connector
- used in an FDDI fiber based token ring network
- WLAN
- Wireless Local Area Network
- NIC
- Network Interface Card
- Cat3
- twisted pair cable that supports 10 mpbs
- RJ-11 connector
- 4 pin connector used to connect telephone to data network
- IPX/SPX
- Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced PacketExchange
- Fiber Optic Cable
- cable that uses glass or plastic strand to send and recieve data via beam of light
- Coaxial Cable
- layers of braided wire or foil between the copper core and pvc outer coating
- ST connector
- most popular connection for fiber optic cable
- TCP/IP
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- RJ
- Registered jack
- wiMax
- world wide interoperability of Microwave access
- RJ-45 connector
- 8 pin connector used to connect node to data network
- Ethernet
- most popular LAN topology using twisted pair, coaxial cable, fiber optic, and wireless connection
- NetBEUI
- Protocol supported by older version of Window
- STP
- shield Twisted pair
- AUI
- attachment unit interface