165) ________ connections
provided by cable television vendors use digital cable coaxial lines to deliver high-speed Internet access to homes and businesses.
166) The ________ is the English-like name that corresponds to the unique 32-bit numeric IP address for each computer connected to the Internet.
167) ________ technology delivers voice information in digital form using packet switching, avoiding the tolls charged by local and long-distance telephone networks.
168) When employees use e-mail or the Web at employer facilities or with employer equipment, anything they do, including anything illegal, ________ the company's name.
169) Companies that allow employees to use personal e-mail accounts at work face legal and regulatory trouble if they do not ________ those messages.
170) Canadian companies have the legal right to ________ what employees are doing with company equipment during business hours.
171) A
________
is a secure, encrypted, private network that has been configured within a public network to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks
172) Prior to the development of ________, computer networks used leased, dedicated telephone circuits to communicate with other computers in remote locations.
173) A(n) ________
signal is a discrete, binary waveform that transmits data coded into two discrete states such as 1-bits and 0-bits.
174) ________ is the manner in which the components of a network are connected.