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What Is An Analogue Signal

What Is An Analogue Signal?

Difficulty: Medium

An analogue signal consists of a continuous range of values representing one quantity that is analogous to another quantity...

What Is Telecommunications

What Is Telecommunications?

Difficulty: Easy

Telecommunications, also known as telecom, is a wide term used to describe the electronic transmission of signals over long distances...

What Is A Fibre Optic Cable

What Is A Fibre Optic Cable?

Difficulty: Medium

A fibre-optic cable, also known as an optical-fibre cable, is a network cable that is made up of one or more thin strands of glass fibres...

What Is Anycasting

What Is Anycasting?

Difficulty: Medium

Anycasting is a network addressing and routing method where a group of nodes share the same IP addresses and messages can be sent to...

What Is Broadcasting

What Is Broadcasting?

Difficulty: Medium

Broadcasting refers to the process of sending a message to all hosts on a network without knowing their unique IP addresses...

What Is Unicasting

What Is Unicasting?

Difficulty: Medium

Unicasting is the sending of data across a network to a single recipient or host on a network. Unlike, broadcasting or multicasting...

What Is Multicasting

What Is Multicasting?

Difficulty: Medium

Multicasting is the sending of data across a network to multiple recipients or hosts at the same time across a LAN or WAN. It c...

What Is Token Ring

What Is Token Ring?

Difficulty: Medium

Token Ring is an earlier technology used in LAN where nodes are arranged in a ring or star topology and data is sent in one direction...

What Is Cat 8

What Is Cat 8?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 8, Cat 8 is the latest and fastest IEEE copper Ethernet cable standard that supports data transmission speed...

What Is Cat 7a

What Is Cat 7a?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 7 Augmented, Cat 7a is an enhanced version of Cat 7 that supports data transmission speeds of up to 40 Gb/s,...

What Is Cat 7

What Is Cat 7?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 7, Cat 7 is a type of Ethernet cable that supports data transmission speeds of up to 10 Gb/s, frequency speed...

What Is A Hybrid Topology

What Is A Hybrid Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A hybrid topology is the most complex type of network topology. It is a combination of two or more different topologies. For ex...

What Is A Point-To-Point Topology

What Is A Point-To-Point Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A point-to-point topology is the simplest type of network topology where two nodes are directly connected to each other. It is...

What Is A Tree Topology

What Is A Tree Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A tree topology, also known as a star bus topology is a type of network topology that combines the features of star and bus topologies...

What Is A Mesh Topology

What Is A Mesh Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A mesh topology, also known as a mesh network, is a type of network topology where each node connects to every other node and c...

What Is A Ring Topology

What Is A Ring Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A ring topology, also known as a ring network, is a type of network topology where every network device connects to exactly two...

What Is A Bus Topology

What Is A Bus Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A bus topology, also known as a line topology, is an older type of network topology where all nodes of the network are directly...

What Is A Star Topology

What Is A Star Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A star topology is a type of network topology where every network device has its own cable that connects to a central connection point...

What Is A Network Topology

What Is A Network Topology?

Difficulty: Medium

A network topology is the physical or logical structure of a network that defines how its links and nodes are connected with ea...

What Is Cat 6a

What Is Cat 6a?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 6 Augmented, Cat 6a is an enhanced version of Cat 6 that supports data transmission speeds of up to 10 Gb/s,...

What Is Cat 6

What Is Cat 6?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 6, Cat 6 is a type of Ethernet cable that supports data transmission speeds of up to 10 Gb/s and frequency t...

What Is Cat 4

What Is Cat 4?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 4, Cat 4 is a type of Ethernet cable that supports data transmission speeds of up to 14 Mb/s and frequency t...

What Is ADSL

What Is ADSL?

Difficulty: Medium

ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line and it is a type of DSL broadband technology that transmits digital signals...

What Is Cat 3

What Is Cat 3?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 3, Cat 3 is a type of Ethernet cable that supports data transmission speeds of up to 10 Mb/s and frequency t...

What Is Crosstalk

What Is Crosstalk?

Difficulty: Medium

Crosstalk is the interference between cables in another circuit or channel, caused by signal transmission issues. It occurs when...

What Is Cat 2

What Is Cat 2?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 2, Cat 2 is the second-lowest category of Ethernet cable that supports data transmission speeds of up to 4 M...

What Is Cat 1

What Is Cat 1?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Category 1, Cat 1 is the lowest category of Ethernet cable that supports frequency transmission speeds of up to 1 Mb/...

What Is Baud

What Is Baud?

Difficulty: Medium

Baud, also known as baud rate, is a unit that is used to give a measure of the communication speed over a data channel. It is e...

What Is Multihoming

What Is Multihoming?

Difficulty: Medium

Multihoming refers to the process of connecting a host to more than one network in order to increase its reliability or perform...

What Is FTTC

What Is FTTC?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for fibre to the cabinet, FTTC is a broadband technology that involves running fibre optic cables from the distribution p...