The Net

Match the description of communication technology with the term that best describes it

Allows for lost or corrupted and self routing data - Packet Switching Requires constant connection between sender and receiver - Circuit Switching

A person or company that transports goods or people and that is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport, e.g. public airlines, railroads, bus lines, taxicab. A service that cannot discriminate, or refuse service, unless there is some compelling reason.

Common Carrier

Title II services refer to which of the following

Common carriers like telephone, gas, and electricity providers which are often considered utilities.

Established the regulation of telecommunications carriers by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Communications Act of 1934

Which of the following is NOT one of the four (4) principles describing the changes in FCC stance on the Telecommunications Act of 1996?

Consumers are entitled to access any Internet content of their choice.

Which is clearly MOST consistent with Net Neutrality?

ISP treating all data on the Internet the same

Which of the following elements is NOT a regulatory force according to the "Lessig Model" or "Pathetic Dot Theory"?

Net Neutrality

The FCC classified Internet Service Providers as common carriers for the purpose of enforcing net neutrality.

Open Internet Order

Sort the following technologies in order of development and dependency from earliest to latest. Earliest at the TOP Latest at the BOTTOM

Packet Switching TCP/IP Internet HTML

Match the description with Net Neutrality related term that best describes it

System that does not filter or throttle data traffic - Dumb pipes Capability of ISPs to manage data without degradation of data flow - Provisioning (or over-provisioning) ISPs deliberately slowing or delay data according to data type or protocol - Throttling The (application) features of a system are left for the end points or nodes. - End-to-end principle

Match the description with the Internet infrastructure term which best describes it

Where one internet operation connects directly to another so that they can trade traffic such as an ISP and content provider like Google. - Peering Transit network provider: network that accesses every other network on the Internet without purchasing IP transit - Tier 1 Uneven distribution in Internet or digital access among different groups based on socio-economics geography or related demographics. - Digital Divide