question archive The local Internet provider wants to develop a network that will connect its server at its satellite center in Valparaiso with the main city computer centers in Northwest Indiana to improve the Internet service and to minimize the amount of cable used to connect network nodes
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The local Internet provider wants to develop a network that will connect its server at its satellite center in Valparaiso with the main city computer centers in Northwest Indiana to improve the Internet service and to minimize the amount of cable used to connect network nodes. If we represent this problem with a network,
a) the cities are branches and cables are nodes. |
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b) the cables are the branches and the cities are the nodes. |
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c) the length of cables in miles are the branches, and the cities are the nodes. |
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d) the cities are the branches and the length of cables in miles are the nodes. |
answer is option c) the length of cables in miles are the branches, and the cities are the nodes.
In the network connection, a branch represents a single component from where the source of internet service comes like the cable used to connect the network nodes while a node is the point of connection for two or more branches. Therefore if we represent this problem with a network, the lengths of cables in miles are like branches and the cities will be the nodes.