[Cse461] Accumulated lecture questions

From: Janet Davis (jlnd_at_cs.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 20:09:57 PST

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    Here are resources about some accumulated lecture questions. (I'll have
    results of the midterm feedback tomorrow.)

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    There's no question to go with it, but you might find this article on
    Gigabit Ethernet interesting:
    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/cis788-97/ftp/gigabit_ethernet/index.htm

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    Q: Now I know about TDMA and FDMA. What's CDMA?

    A: CDMA stands for Code Division Muliple Access. The text doesn't cover
    it, as far as I can tell. I found a fairly good article about it on
    Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA

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    Q: What about sending data over power lines?

    A: I don't know much about this, other than it's a new link layer
    technology. Here's the recent news article that probably sparked this
    question:
    http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1075936210031&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

    Here's a whitepaper from Cogency, Inc. about their technology:
    http://whitepapers.informationweek.com/detail/RES/996715219_512.html

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    Q: Is medium access control a problem between routers on the Internet?

    A: In the backbone of the Internet -- Sprint or AT&T, say -- it is most
    likely that the routers are connected by Ethernet switches (so they do not
    share a collision domain), or by other technologies such as FDDI or ATM
    (another link layer technology that we haven't talked about, but is
    covered in the text).

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    Q: Where is Jesus?

    A: I don't know.

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    Q: What's the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and
    Everything?

    A: 42.

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    Janet Davis
    jlnd_at_cs.washington.edu
    http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jlnd/
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