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A glossary of terms related to wide area networks (wans), including definitions of key concepts such as wan service providers, cpe, dce, dte, and various wan technologies like frame relay, atm, and mpls. it also includes a series of questions and answers testing understanding of these concepts, making it a valuable resource for students studying networking.
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WAN-wide-area network used to interconnect multiple remote LANs WAN service provider- an organization such as a telephone network, cable company or satellite service that provides links to interconnect remote sites customer premises equipment (CPE) - devices and wiring located on the enterprise edge and owned by the customer or leased from the service provider
data communications equipment DCE-Answer devices that provide an interface for a customer to put data on the local loop to the WAN provider
data terminal equipment DTE- Answer devices that pass data from the customer network through the DCE to the WAN
demarcation point -Answer the place where the responsibility of the connection changes from the service provider to the customer
local loop Answers the actual copper or fiber wiring that connects the customer premises equipment to the service provider central offic. central office (CO) Answers the local service provider building that connects the customers to the service provider network toll network Answers long-haul fiber-optic communication lines and networking equipment inside the service provider network
dialup modem - Answer a legacy device that converts digital computer signals into analog signals that traverse the public telephone network
broadband modem - Answer a digital modem using high-speed DSL or cable Internet service
CSU/DSU - Answer The CSU terminates the digital signal and provides error correction and line monitoring. The DSU converts the data into frames understood by the LAN.
WAN switch - Answer a multiport service provider networking device used to switch traffic at Layer 2
circuit-switched network - Answer a dedicated circuit used to forward voice or data between a sender and a receiver
packet-switched network - Answer a network where data is split into packets and routed across a shared network
private WAN connections - Answer PSTN, ISDN, Ethernet WAN, ATM, and Frame Relay
public WAN connections - Answer DSL, cable, and satellite
dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) - Answer provides bidirectional communications over one strand of fiber
leased line - Answer A customer pays a monthly lease fee to a service provider to use a permanent dedicated connection from the customer premise to the provider network.
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network, provides a circuit-switching technology that allows the local loop of a PSTN to carry digital signals and thus, it provides higher capacity connections than dialup allows.
ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) - used in home and small enterprises, it provides two 64 kbps B data channels and a 16 kbps D control channel.
ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI) - Used in larger organizations; provides 23 B data channels with 64 kbps and one D control channel with 64 kbps.
Frame Relay - A Layer 2 technology, which uses virtual circuits (VCs) to carry voice and data traffic between enterprise LANs.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) -Answer an extremely scalable technology using fixed length cells of 53 bytes and can send data at fast speed
Ethernet WAN - Answer a high-bandwidth Layer 2 WAN service using fiber optic cabling to provide connections in metropolitan areas