IST 233 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Customer-Premises Equipment, Service-Level Agreement, Local Loop
11 Dec 2017
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Chapter 10: explain how lans differ from wans and mans. Wans connect different sites across a region, country or the world. Lans are managed by the owner of the network but wans and lans are managed by the carrier. Access line, network core, customer premises equipment: *how does the local loop differ for homes and businesses, *explain the concept of the (cid:498)local loop(cid:499) and access lines. Local loop is the link between the customer premises and the end office switch. Access lines connect a customer premises to the network core of the wan. Designed for voice transmission, can be used for dsl, already installed, no costs of pulling media. Optical fiber (carrier fiber) installed in entire neighborhoods. to reduce costs: explain how leased lines differ from dialup lines. Compare and contrast consumer and business dsl services. Business dsl services are symmetric while consumer dsl is asymmetric. speeds for downloading and uploading. guarantee for speed.
