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1. What is plain old telephone service (POTS)? P. 352 The basic telephone system, a voice-carrying medium. 2. What is the typical frequency range for the human voice? P. 356 Roughly between 300 3400 Hz. 3. What two entities does a local loop connect? P. 352 The local loop connects your home/business to the telephone companys central office. 5. How does a trunk differ from a telephone line? P. 353- A trunk does not have a telephone number associated with it because it carries hundreds of voice and data channels. 7. What is the difference between a local exchange carrier and an interexchange carrier? P. 355 Local exchange carrier (LEC) were local telephone companies, interexchange carriers were long distance phone companies. 12. What are the basic features and transfer speeds of DSL? P. 360 Hundreds of thousands to several million bits per second. 13. How does a leased line service differ from POTS? P. 364 Leased lines provided various speeds of data transfer and were fixed circuits and permanently installed between two locations. Circuit was always active. Speed of transfer of data. 14. What are the basic characteristics of a T-1 line? P. 365 T-1 is a point-to-point connection, all digital, transfers voice or data 15. What are the basic services of a T-3 line? P. 365 T-3 lines service customers who require transmission speeds higher than 1.544 Mbps. They transfer data at 45 Mbps but of course at a higher price. 16. What are the basic characteristics of a frame relay? P. 366 A packet-switched network that was designed for transmitting data over fixed lines (not dial-up lines). Can be either local or long distance service. Very high transfer rate, uses fiber-optics, secure, low error rates.

Chapter 11 Voice and Data Delivery Networks 17. How do you make a frame relay so attractive? P. 366 It provides many attractive alternatives to leased lines such as a very high transfer rate, uses fiber-optics, secure, low error rates. 24. What are the basic features of ATM? P. 369 All data is sent in small 53-byte packages called cells which enables fast switching capabilities, high transfer rates, simultaneously supports voice, video and data. 25. What is the relationship between an ATM virtual channel connection and a virtual path connection? P. 369 Before an ATM can transfer any data, it must create a logical connection called a virtual channel connection. This VCC must be created over a virtual path connection (VPC). 26. What is meant by ATM having classes of service? P. 370 A class of service is a definition of a type of traffic and the underlying technology that will support that type of traffic. I.e. real-time interactive class of service defines live video traffic.