network communications Flashcards

(6 cards)

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are individual facts, statistics, or items of information, often numeric

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data

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is any continuous signal representing some other quantity, i.e., “analogous” to another quantity.

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analog signal

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connection refers to a communications connection between two communication endpoints or nodes. An example is a telephone call, in which one telephone is connected with one other, and what is said by one caller can only be heard by the other. This is contrasted with a , in which many nodes can receive information transmitted by one node.
(two words)

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point-to-point, point-to-multipoint or broadcast connection

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(shortened form of the Latin omnibus, and historically also called data highway or databus) is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers. This expression covers all related hardware components (wire, optical fibers, etc.) and software, including communication protocols

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computer bus

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is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio

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modem

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is a device or computer program which encodes or decodes a data stream or signal

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a codec

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