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Homework - CSIS 625 - Fall 2001 - Oelke
Due Week 3 (Sept 24, 2001) by classtime

Define the following:
1) Bandwidth:

2) Network:

3) Protocol:

4) Half-Duplex:

5) Star Network:

6) Pure Mesh Network:

7) PCM:

8) QAM:

Short Answer:
9) List the 7 OSI layers and describe each briefly:

10) What is bit rate, what is baud rate and how are they related?

11) With a given bandwidth, which digital-to-analog encoding technique gives the highest bit rate and why?

12) Choose 3 digital encoding methods and compare them to one another giving weaknesses and strengths of each.