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CSU/DSU Functions

Translates digital signals used on a LAN to those used on a WAN.

Corporate Environment

Three Benefits ISDNS:

WAN engineers can plug the telco interface directly into their equipment, eliminating another device in the network--and its separate power and management requirements, (Pearson Education, Informit, 2012). ISDN is a switched service. That means data connections are temporary, and the ISDN link is active only when you use it. The benefit After a small monthly fee, you pay only for ISDN calls you make. Dedicated high-speed services such as Tl charge a high monthly rate even if you don't use them, (ARC Electronics, P.1 2010).

A CSU/DSU is primarily used on both ends of a T-1 or T-3 connection. A T1 or T3 is a fast digital leased line, often used for high-speed internet connections, (TechExams.Net, 2012). Additional, assets is being able to provide remote assistance using telnet. It also provides diagnostics and allows for remote testing.

ISDN supports flexible connections to multiple sites. Just like a regular telephone line, ISDN lets you dial any ISDN location-anywhere in the world! Services like DDS or Tl provide a fixed point-topoint connection, with no flexibility to dial other locations. ISDN gives you fast, flexible communications for a much lower price, (ARC Electronics, P.1 2010). All-digital transmission means high performance. High-speed analog modems, (ARC Electronics, P.1 2010). Packets will share the resource, whereas a circuit does not share with other transmissions, (Answers Corporation, P.1 2012). Only one conversation can take place at a time, when using Circuit switching. See Figure 1: See Figure 1:

Compare and contrast Packets

Multiple conversations can take place at once, while using packet switching. Circuit switching uses a dedicated path in a connection between two endpoints, (Answers Corporation, 2012). See Figure 1: See Figure 1:

Circuit switching

Commonly used Advantages and disadvantages

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Figure 1: Common uses and Advantages, and disadvantages, (Answers Corporation, P.1 2012). Three main types of firewalls Packet Filtering Three Subtypes Static Filtering This can be manually changed, most routers implement filter rules, (Cisco, P.2 2012). Application Gateways Application gateways or proxybased firewalls operate at the application level and can examine information at the application data level, (Cisco, P.2 2012). Dynamic Filtering The decisions based Based on routeron application data, observed events in such as commands which an outside passed to FTP, or a process changes the URL passed to filtering rules HTTP. It has been dynamically, (Cisco, said that application P.2 2012). gateways "break the client/server model," (Cisco, P.2 2012). Stateful Inspection It has been said that This has addition of application gateways more granular "break the examination of data client/server model," contained in the IP (Cisco, P.2 2012). packet, (Cisco, P.2 2012). The application level In addition, packet firewall is more filtering firewalls is complicated and the most versatile more expensive to firewall. implement, however provides better security. Circuit Gateways Circuit gateways operate at the network transport layer.

Circuit Gateways prevent direct connections between one network and another, (Cisco, P.2 2012).

Circuit Gateways cannot look at data traffic flowing between one network and another, (Cisco, P.2 2012).

Most efficient and why

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