S-38.105 exam, Thursday 11.01. 2001

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There are five questions in this exam. You are allowed to answer only four of them.


1. Network technologies

Make a table where you compare ATM, SONET, Frame relay and ADSL. Choose five (5) characteristics.

2. Terms

Write out the following abbreviations and explain their meaning:

  1. ATM
  2. CIC
  3. BRI
  4. CCS
  5. DTE
  6. TCP/IP

3. SS7

What are the advantages of the SS7?

4. ISDN vs. ADSL

Your job is to sell ISDN-telephones to home consumers before the faster ADSL technology will take over. Make an advertisement where you praise the advantages of ISDN. Give the headline so that the reader knows immediately what is coming!

5. Quality of Service in Internet (additional material)

Answer the questions after reading the article "The Need for QoS".

a) Why is the Internet Protocol not able to serve sufficiently all the Internet services that are currently being developed?
b) How does QoS (Quality of Service) solve these problems?


Remember to answer only four questions!