Chapter 2 Flashcards
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| 8728740834 | Ethernet | A series of LAN standards defined by the IEEE, originally invented by Xerox and developed jointly by Xerox, Intel, and Digital Equipment Corporation. | 0 | |
| 8728796395 | IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. A professional organization that develops communications and network standards, among other activities. | 1 | |
| 8728808687 | Wired LAN | A LAN that physically transmits bits using cables, often the wires inside cables. | 2 | |
| 8728826694 | Wireless LAN | A LAN that physically transmits bits using radio waves. | 3 | |
| 8728830643 | Ethernet Frame | An Ethernet data link header and trailer, plus the data encapsulated between them. | 4 | |
| 8728845282 | 10BASE-T | The 10-Mbps baseband Ethernet specification using two pairs of twisted-pair cabling: One pair transmits data and the other receives data. 802.3 specification. 100 meters. | 5 | |
| 8728858065 | 100BASE-T | Fast Ethernet. Two-pair copper cabling. 100 Mbps. 100 meters. | 6 | |
| 8728865043 | 1000BASE-T | Gigabit Ethernet. Four-Pair copper cabling. 1000 Mbps (1 Gbps). 100 meters. | 7 | |
| 8728911713 | Fast Ethernet | The common name for all the IEEE standards that send data at 100 megabits per second. | 8 | |
| 8728918896 | Gigabit Ethernet | The common name for all the IEEE standards that send data at 1 gigabit per second. | 9 | |
| 8728922608 | Ethernet Link | Any physical link between two Ethernet nodes, no matter what type of cabling is used. | 10 | |
| 8728928715 | RJ-45 | Cabling connector used for Ethernet cabling. Similar to RJ-11 for telephones. | 11 | |
| 8728938622 | Ethernet Port | The opening on the side of any Ethernet node, typically an Ethernet NIC or LAN switch, into which an Ethernet cable can be connected. | 12 | |
| 8728950399 | Network Interface Card (NIC) | A computer card, sometimes an expansion card and sometimes integrated into the motherboard of the computer, that provides the electronics and other functions to connect to a computer network. | 13 | |
| 8728967044 | Straight-through Cable | In Ethernet, a cable that connects 1-1, 2-2, 3-3... | 14 | |
| 8728983424 | Crossover-Cable | An Ethernet cable that swaps the pair used for transmission on one device to a pair used for receiving on the device on the opposite end of the cable. 1-3, 2-6 | 15 | |
| 8728998029 | Ethernet Address | A 48-bit (6 byte) binary number, usually written with a 12-digit hexadecimal number, used to identify Ethernet nodes in an Ethernet network. Ethernet frame headers list a destination and source address field, used by the Ethernet devices to deliver Ethernet frames to the correct destination. | 16 | |
| 8729023551 | MAC Address | A standardized data link layer address that is required by every device that connects to a LAN. Ethernet MAC addresses are 6 bytes long and are controlled by the IEEE. AKA hardware address + physical address. | 17 | |
| 8729040486 | Unicast Address | Any address in networking that represents a single device or interface, instead of a group of addresses. | 18 | |
| 8729052187 | Broadcast Address | Any address that represents all devices, and can be used to send one message to all devices. | 19 | |
| 8729061531 | Frame Check Sequence | A field in many data link trailers used as part of the error-detection process. | 20 |