This is a crossword network base.
Across
1. A device that provides network segmentation through A type of perimeter network used to host resources hardware designated as accessible to a limited group of external entities
2. has no local processing or storage capability and logic is on distributed servers
3. A device that combines a bridge and a router. Also known as a bridging router
4. A network device responsible for directing traffic toward its stated destination along the best-known current available
5. In a ring network, this controls traffic on the network cable by determining which systems can send information path onto the line
6. A network device that forwards traffic between networks based on the MAC address of the Ethernet frame forwards
7. A network layout with an independent cable to each only packets whose destination address is on the opposing device network (think city split by a river)
8. A topology that uses a closed cabling scheme
9. A logical network created from devices on different LANs
10. A network server that accepts inbound connections from that function on the same network remote clients
11. A type of hub that rebuilds the signal received through a
12. A device used to connect a computer or network to the bit-by-bit process Internet
13. The arrangement and means of connection of computers
14. A logical networking technique that breaks IP addresses and peripherals in a network into smaller subsets, thus extending the available IP address pool or allowing for network segmentation
15. Any small network, workgroup, or client/server, deployed by a small business, a home-based business, or just a family network in a home
16. A network layout with increased redundancy and usually significantly increased set-up costs
17. A linear arrangement of computers and peripherals