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What Is An Analogue Signal

What Is An Analogue Signal?

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

What Is A Fibre Optic Cable

What Is A Fibre Optic Cable?

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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?

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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?

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

What Is uTorrent

What Is uTorrent?

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µTorrent, also spelt as uTorrent, is a free BitTorrent client that was developed by Rainberry, Inc with over 150 million users...

What Is Podcast

What Is A Podcast?

Difficulty: Medium

A podcast, also known as an audioblog, or a pod, is a series of prerecorded digital audio files that can be downloaded from the internet...

What Is FQDN

What Is An FQDN?

Difficulty: Medium

Also known as an absolute domain name, an FQDN stands for a Fully Qualified Domain Name and it describes a full alphanumeric domain...

What Is PuTTy

What Is PuTTy?

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PuTTY is a free terminal emulator software that can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, and rlogin protocols with an xterm terminal...

What Is Traceroute

What Is Traceroute?

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Traceroute, also known as tracert, is a command-line utility used to display the path the data packet took from its source to destination...

What Is RTP

What Is RTP?

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Real-time transport protocol (RTP) is a protocol used for delivering live media over the internet, such as audio, video playing...

What Is IRC

What Is IRC?

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Short for Internet Relay Chat, IRC is an application-layer protocol used for real-time chatting and instant messaging with user...

What Is Metcalfe's Law

What Is Metcalfe's Law?

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Metcalfe’s law is a concept in computer networks that was created by Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and 3Com to repr...

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 The Loopback Address

What Is The Loopback Address?

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The loopback address, also known as the localhost address, is the reserved IP address that sends and routes data packets to its...

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 The IETF

What Is The IETF?

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Short for the Internet Engineering Task Force, the IETF is a non-profit organisation responsible for the development of internet...

What Is ARCNET

What Is ARCNET?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Attached Resource Computer Network, ARCNET is one of the oldest LAN technologies that was introduced by Datapoint Corp...

What Is Cat 8

What Is Cat 8?

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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?

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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?

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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 GoDaddy

What Is GoDaddy?

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GoDaddy, originally called Jomax Technologies, is a domain registrar that provides domain name registration services, web hosting...

What Is Namecheap

What Is Namecheap?

Difficulty: Medium

Namecheap is a domain registrar that provides domain name registration services, web hosting, SSL certificates, email services...

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 Mesh Topology

What Is A Mesh Topology?

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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?

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