Networking, incl. mobile computing

12 important questions on Networking, incl. mobile computing

What are the advantages and disavantages of twisted-pair wire communication?

Advantages:
- Inexpensive
- Widely available
- Easy to work with  

Disadvantages:
- Slow
- Subject to interference
- Easily tapped

What are the advantages and disadvantages of coaxial cable communication?

Advantages:
- Higher bandwidth than twisted-pair
- Less susceptible to electromagnetic interference

Disadvantages:
- Relatively expensive and inflexible
- Easily tapped (low to medium security)
- Somewhat difficult to work with

What are the advantages and disadvantages of fibre-optic cable?

Advantages:
- Very high bandwidth
- Relatively inexpensive
- Difficult to tap (good security)

Disadvantages:
- Difficult to work with
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What are advantages and disadvantages of microwave communication?

Advantages:
- High bandwidth
- Relatively inexpensive

Disadvantages:
- Must have unobstructed line of sight
- Susceptible to environmental interference

What are advantages and disadvantages of sattelite communication?

Advantages:
- High bandwidth
- Large coverage area

Disadvantages:
- Expensive
- Must have unobstructed line of sight
- Signals experience propagation delay
- Must use encryption for security

What are advantages and disadvantages of radio (e.g. Wi-Fi, bluetooth) communication?

Advantages:
- High bandwidth
- Signals pass through walls
- Inexpensive and easy to install

Disadvantages:
- Creates electrical interference problems     
- Susceptible to snooping unless encrypted

What are the advantages and disadvantages of infrared communication?

Advantages:
- Low to medium bandwidth

Disadvantages:
- Must have unobstructed line of sight
- Used only for short distances.

Explain the difference between bluetooth and wifi

Bluetooth does not take much power, has a long life, costs are low. Wifi is complexer.

What is an IP-address, mac adress and a gateway?

IP: assigned by network
Mac: built into machine, cannot change
Gateway: address of the modem

What is transmission control (packet switching)

When the documents you send are not sent at once, they go in chunks.

Explain internet, intranet, extranet

Internet: provision of/access to info
Intranet: sharing info within organisation
Extranet: sharing info across collaborating organisations

What are the HTTP, SMTP and SIP protocols?

HTTP: language of much of www

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