Chapter 7. WAN and Security Standards and Services

Domain II Objectives in this Chapter:

2.14

Identify the basic characteristics (such as speed, capacity, and media) of the following WAN technologies:

 

2.14.1

Packet switching

 

2.14.2

Circuit switching

 

2.14.3

ISDN

 

2.14.4

FDDI

 

2.14.5

T1/E1/J1

 

2.14.6

T3/E3/J3

 

2.14.7

OCx

 

2.14.8

X.25

2.15

Identify the basic characteristics of the following Internet access technologies:

 

2.15.1

xDSL

 

2.15.2

Broadband Cable

 

2.15.3

POTS / PSTN

 

2.15.4

Satellite

 

2.15.5

Wireless

2.16

Define the functions of the following remote access protocols and services:

 

2.16.1

RAS

 

2.16.2

PPP

 

2.16.3

SLIP

 

2.16.4

PPPoE

 

2.16.5

PPTP

 

2.16.6

VPN

 

2.16.7

RDP

2.17

Identify the following security protocols and describe their purposes and functions:

 

2.17.1

IPSec

 

2.17.2

L2TP

 

2.17.3 ...

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