| | Upgrading and Repairing Networks -- Ch 7 -- Major Network Types (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Data must ultimately be broken down into binary bits that are transmitted over the medium using one of many possible encoding schemes designed to use fluctuations in electrical current or pulses of light to represent 1s and 0s. |
 | | The data rate of 10 Mbps and the Baseband Manchester signaling type (the way 1s and 0s are conveyed over the medium) remain unchanged, and the physical layer configuration specs for thicknet and thinnet are identical in both standards. |
 | | A request will originate at the highest level of the OSI model and, as it travels down through the layers to the physical medium itself, be subject to various levels of encoding, each of which adds a certain amount of overhead to the original request. |
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