Lesson Objectives:
After reading
the chapter and completing the exercises, the students should be able
to:
• Describe the base
concepts associated with Wide Area Networks (WANs)
• Understand the differences between analog, digital, and packet-switching
WAN technologies
• Identify the uses, benefits, and drawbacks of advanced WAN
technologies such as ISDN, ATM, frame relay, FDDI, SONET, and SMDS.
Key Terms
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit (CSU/DSU)
clustered server
Committed Information Rate (CIR)
data communications equipment (DCE)
data terminal equipment (DTE)
Digital Data Service (DDS)
DS
fractional T1
frame relay
line conditioning
multiplexing
muxing
optical carrier (OC)
permanent virtual circuit (PVC)
plain old telephone system (POTS)
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
server cluster
Switched 56K
Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS)
switched virtual circuit (SVC)
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
T1
T3
telco
virtual circuit
virtual private network (VPN)
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Links
Webopedia
-WAN
WAN
- Wide Area Network (Lots
of good links from this site.
