Q. What are the basic types of Transmission technologies, basis on which computer networks will be categorized?
Ans: Broadly there are two kinds of transmission technology:
Broadcast networks:
Point-to-point networks:
1. Broadcast networks: a single communication channel that is shared by all the machines on the Network.
2. Point-to-point networks: This network takes of many connections between individual pairs of machines. To go from the source to destination a message or packet can have to visit one or more intermediate machines