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18 Cards in this Set
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Synchronous |
RE: Communication between computers both the sender and receiver are active at the same time |
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Asynchronous |
RE: Communication between computers Sending and receiving happen at different times |
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Broadcast |
RE: Communication between computers One sender connects to many receivers |
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Multicast |
RE: Communication between computers One sender connects to a specific group of receivers |
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Type of communication the Internet supports |
Asynchronous point-to-point communication |
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Internet |
a universal communication medium where each computer connected to the internet is connected to each other computer on the internet |
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Client/server interaction protocol |
1) Client requests web page 2) Server sends information 3) Client processes information and displays web page |
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Web Server |
A computer designed to store and send web page information |
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Internet Protocol address |
A series of 4 unique 3 digit numbers used to identify the location of a specific computer |
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Domain |
A related group of networked computers |
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
A process that sends information through the internet: - Info is split into many different IP packets, each with a unique sequence number - IP Packets are sent along the internet using whichever route is available - Destination source collects and assembles the packets in the correct order |
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IP packets |
These hold one unit of information, the destination IP address, and their sequence number |
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Wide Area Network (WAN) |
The internet is a collection of these. In these, computers are geographically far from each other, so information may be transmitted over several different point-to-point connections. |
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Local Area Network (LAN) |
This connects computers close by with a related purpose, typically using a common wiring system called an Ethernet |
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Ethernet |
A common wiring system typically used to link LANs |
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World Wide Web |
A collection of files and computers called Web servers, which send files to the browsers on computers connected to the internet. |
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Universal Resource Locator (URL) |
This is the location of a certain web page and is used by a computer's browser to request the web page information to be sent. |
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3 parts of a URL |
ex: https://cse.wwu.edu/computer-science/pottsc2 Protocol: https:// - stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol which tells the computer how to handle the file Server's computer name: cse.wwu.edu is the server's domain name Page's Pathname: /computer-science/pottsc2 tells the computer which file is requested |
