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Access Point - ANSWER ✔✔a radio transceiver used on wireless
LANs that enables the computers near it to communicate with each
other and it also connects them into wired LANs.
Application Architecture - ANSWER ✔✔The way in which the
functions of application layer software are spread among clients and
servers in a network.
Attenuation - ANSWER ✔✔Loss of power in a signal as it travels from
the sending device to the receiving device
, BN (Main Jobs) - ANSWER ✔✔a larger, central network connecting
several LANs, other BNs, MANs, and WANs. Routes and forwards
messages, and passes content
o Distribution layer in a building. (Building Network)
o Most common topology: Star Topology
Baselining - ANSWER ✔✔when designers must review the list of
applications that will use the network and identify the location of each,
and the information is added to the emerging network documentation
Building Network - ANSWER ✔✔The second network architecture
component which some vendors call the distribution layer, because it
distributes network traffic to and from the LANs.
Campus Network - ANSWER ✔✔The third network architecture
component, is usually faster than the backbones we use inside buildings
because it typically carries more traffic than they do.
circuit loading - ANSWER ✔✔The amount of data transmitted on a
circuit. This analysis can focus on either the average circuit traffic or the
peak circuit traffic.
Content Caching - ANSWER ✔✔To store other people's Web data
closer to your users. You install a content engine (also called a cache