Key words- networks

• Bandwidth


  How much data can be sent to the device
• Latency


  The delay between sending and receiving packets
• Error rate


  The chance of data being lost while being sent
• Client-Server Model


  A network model where all clients are connected to a central server which controls the flow of the network
• Router


  A network device which connects the network to the internet
• Switch


  A network device which connects devices on the same network together
• Transmission media


  What data is sent on in a network
• Domain name service


  The process of turning a URL into a IP address
• The cloud


  Using the internet as storage
• Hexadecimal


  A base-16 number system that uses sixteen distinct symbols 0-9 and A-F to represent numbers from 0 to 15.