Transmission Methods Flashcards
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Uses two pairs of wires. Restriction is having only two nodes on the wire (i.e. host connected directly to a switch port). Collisions will not occur.
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Full Duplex
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Q
Uses one pair of wires. Host cannot transmit and receive simultaneously.
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Half Duplex
2
Q
Uses a series of Fast Link Pulses (FLPs) to communicate with the device on the other end to determine speed and duplex.
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Auto negotiation
3
Q
Created to overcome the problem of collisions that occur when packets are transmitted simultaneously from different nodes on the network medium.
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Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)
