An internal network that can be accessed by outsiders e.g. customers, pupils and staff
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What is a switch?
A device that analyses each packet of data then sends it to the computer that it was intended for
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What is a gateway?
It links a LAN to a LAN
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What is a router
It allows computers on a network to share an internet connection
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What is packet switching?
Data is broken into packets; the packets are sent (one-by-one) over a network; packets contain source address and a destination address; packets can take different routes to get to their destination; data is reassembled at the destination
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
An internal network that can be accessed by outsiders e.g. customers, pupils and staff
Back
What is an extranet?
Card 3
Front
A device that analyses each packet of data then sends it to the computer that it was intended for
Back
Card 4
Front
It links a LAN to a LAN
Back
Card 5
Front
It allows computers on a network to share an internet connection
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