Brook Creager
Physical Networking
Assignment 1
3/17/15
A cellular a cell phone uses a wireless network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver, known as a cell site or base station. In a cellular network, each cell uses a different set of frequencies from neighboring cells, to avoid interference and provide guaranteed bandwidth within each cell.
A landline phone uses a data network refers to a phone that uses a metal wire telephone line for transmission as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, which uses radio waves for transmission.
Short Message Service is a text messaging service that uses data network that is a component of phone, Web, or mobile communication systems. It uses standardized communications protocols to allow fixed line or mobile phone devices to exchange short text messages.
Fax machines use voice they quite often share a phone extension and have fax switch. Office wise they should be on their way out but surprisingly you still see them. Internally all the large telephone companies are switching to unified data networks to carry all of their traffic, and tweaking the parameters for best results with each distinct type of traffic going onto the network.
A pager uses data networking way to notify individuals of incoming calls by a tone, it uses a data signal.
VOIP phone uses digital technology to make phone calls on the internet rather than through phone lines. A VoIP phone allows us to bypass the