Chapter 5 - Planning a Network
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Across: 2. A single length of cable runs between computers, which are configured in a ring. 4. The physical equipment that makes up your network. 6. The process of walking files, saved on floppy disks, from one computer to another. 10. The chip that controls your computer. 11. A company, such as MSN, that provides access to the Internet. 12. The most common network structure; each computer connectes to a central point on the network. 14. A device placed at each end of the cable in a bus network. 15. Sockets on a connecting device into which you plug the cables for the computer devices. 16. Equipment that connects a computer to the Internet via a phone line. 17. The central connecting device to which all cables on the network connect.
Down: 1. How the information transfers between computers over the network. 3. A computer that manages and stores all the print jobs sent to the printer from all computers on the network. 5. Equipment that connects networks and directs information to computers on the network. 7. The structure, or how the network is laid out; this is usually dependent on the network architecture. 8. All computers connect along a continuous cabel, known as a backbone. 9. A connection device that links two different types of networks. 12. Similar to a hub, but this gets information from the network and sends that information to a specific destination on the network. 13. A powerful computer that fills a specific function on the network.