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Chapter 11: Voice and Data Delivery Networks
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1. The Internet can transfer conventional data and voice data.
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2. It wasn’t until the 1950s that POTS began carrying computer data signals as well as voice signals.
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3. Only two wires are required to complete a telephone circuit.
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4. A trunk has a unique telephone number associated with it.
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5. Subscriber loops usually transmit digital signals, which require amplifiers every few kilometers.
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6. Prior to 1984, AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) owned all the long-distance telephone lines in the United States.
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7. Telephone systems were originally designed to transmit the human voice.
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8. The more information you wish to send over a medium, the lower the frequency of the signal you need to represent that information.
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9. When they were originally introduced many years ago, dial-up modems were capable of data transfer speeds of merely 15 to 30 bits per second.
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10. A V.92 modem can place a data connection on hold should someone call the user’s telephone number.
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11. An asymmetric service is useful for an Internet connection in which the bulk of the traffic comes down from the Internet to the workstation.
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12. Most residential DSL services are symmetric.
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13. There is only one DSL format in use today.
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14. A cable modem is a physical device that separates the computer data from the cable television video signal.
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15. Cable modem connections are typically symmetric.
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16. The most popular example of a leased line service is the T-1.
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17. Quarter-T-1 and half-T-1 lines are called fractional T-1 services.
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18. The frame relay service can only be a long-distance service....