WAN and LAN Fill in the Blanks

1) The largest WAN is ___________________.

2) A system of LANs connected over telephone and radio waves is ___________________

3) A _________ is a workstation on a LAN.

4) ____________ is the most common LAN on the Windows OS.

5) A group of ___________ close together, usually in the same building form a __________

6) Organizations supporting WANs using the __________ __________ are known as
Network Service Providers

7) In a LAN, transmission speeds range from one megabit per second up to _______ megabits per second.

8) ___________ and _____________ allow smaller LANs to connect to form larger ones.

9) ________ ________ __________ allow users to connect to their WANs at a price in order to be connected to the internet.

10) __________ __________ __________ and _________ _________ were the first two defined protocols in WAN technologies.

11) A ______ ______ ______ is the fastest type of network.

12) A _______ ______ ______ can span over a whole city or university, connecting all the small LANs to it and connecting all that to a WAN

13) In a ______ Ring network, you can't have collisions because there is only one signal that goes in one circle and gets passed between computers.

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