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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 553.

Give all possible derivatives of the following words. Use dictionary if necessary.

To compare, to determine, to optimize, to remove, active, description, to vary.

6. Write the expansions of the following abbreviations and learn them:

TDMA, ASIC.

1. Flooding ─ the networking technique of ….. a frame onto all ports of a switch except the port on which it arrived.

2. Configuration ─ the entire ….. set of hardware, or the way in which a network is laid out ─ the manner in which elements are connected.

3. Timestamp ─ a time signature that is ….. by a program or system to files, e-mail messages, or Web pages.

4. Entry ─ a unit of information ….. as a whole by a computer program.

5. Redundancy ─ the process of ….. extra components in a system in case there is a breakdown.

6. Acknowledgement ─ sending a signal from a receiver to show that a ….. message has been received.

7. Aging ─ the technique of ….. older information so that the switch doesn`t waste time searching through stale address.

8. Matrix ─ a type of switch that has an internal grid with the input ports and the output ports ….. each other.

8. Translate the passages in writing:

a) Transparent bridging is a technology that allows a switch to learn everything it needs to know about the location of nodes on the network without the network administrator having to do anything.

b) Learning and flooding continue as the switch adds nodes to the lookup tables. Most switches have plenty of memory in a switch for maintaining the look-up tables; but to optimize the use of this memory, they still remove older information so that the switch doesn't waste time searching through stale addresses.

c) In this case, even if one of the switches fails, the network will continue. This provides redundancy, effectively eliminating the single point of failure.