135) The ________ is special software that routes and manages communications on the network and coordinates networks resources.
136) Firms in the past used two fundamentally different types of ________: telephone and computer.
137) Due to continuing telecommunications ________ and information technology innovation, telephone and computer networks are slowly converging into a single digital network using shared Internet-based standards and equipment.
138) Increasingly, voice and data ________ as well as Internet access are taking place over broadband wireless platforms, such as cell phones, handheld digital devices, and PCs in wireless networks.
139) If you had to connect the computers for two or more employees together in the same office, you would need a computer ________.
140) Each computer on the network contains a network interface device called a
________.
141) Contemporary digital networks and the Internet are based on three key technologies: ________, the use of packet switching, and the development of widely used communications standards for linking disparate networks and computers.
142) Packet switching makes much more ________ use of the communications capacity of a network.
143) A
________
is a set of rules and procedures governing transmission of information between two points in a network.
144) TCP/IP uses a suite of ________, the main ones being TCP and IP.