MISM 3404 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Transmission Control Protocol, Synchronous Optical Networking, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MISM 3404
• Professor: Rajiv Shridhar

Document Summary

Senders/receivers just match speed and do not need to worry about language conversion (cid:523)makes it faster/simpler(cid:524) This makes it easy to upgrade/increase speeds. Problem with lan: could only have 1 path hence were prone to line downs etc. (switch) that is active. Protocol:- allows us to have multiple lines (inactive) while only 1. How its used: if a particular connection goes down, the protocol initiates a new connection by deactivating the faulty connection and activating one of the redundant connections. Why is it relevant: ensures that your network is always working/has redundancy without breaking the rule of only having a single path. Designed to be fast (cid:523)ethernet(cid:524) by keeping architecture in a tree structure. Only (cid:883) way to get from one place to another. Runs on all switches and allows switches to enable/disable redundant paths on failure of primary paths. Fault tolerance while maintaining ethernet fast for communications.