Network neutrality is the principle that companies responsible for Internet infrastructure are not allowed to ____________ certain types of data (e.g., data from particular domains) being transferred across the Internet.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTION: Suppose you work for a small business and the owner is worried about malicious software but doesn’t know much about it.

The FCC regulates spectrum for over-the-airways broadcasts, but not for cable-based transmission. This is because…

When preparing to transmit a image file, _________ compression is/are both acceptable and useful because images typically have lots of redundancy and they often contain details that can be omitted without the user noticing.

You can represent 8 on a digital computer in several different ways. One way is to use 7-bit ASCII encoding: __________. Another is to convert the number to its binary equivalent: __________. 

Which of the two frequencies will provide a more reliable connection in an environment in which there are many geographic obstacles, such as hills and valleys?

Compare two carrier frequencies, one at 89.7MHz and the other at 2.4GHz, in terms of the information they can convey.  You may assume that each signal is transmitted over a dedicated wire. Which carrier can be used to convey more information given a signal with a 100kHz bandwidth?

How would recording (i) with a sampling rate of 20kHz recorded and using 8 bits/sample differ from recording (ii) with a sampling rate of 20kHz and using 16 bits/sample?

[i] Time-division multiplexing (TDM) is different than frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) because [ii] FDM is based on frequency modulation and TDM shares the channel by dividing it into short timeslots.

Calculate message latency for a 25 Kbit message with a bitrate of 100 Kbits/second and a propagation delay of .25 seconds.  Show your calculations and remember to indicate the unit of measurement for all quantities.