Critical Thinking Questions Case 10-2 the Area of Network Communications

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 10-2 The area of network communications standards is an area with which you are not familiar, so you have decided to study it in some detail. You expect to have to network a wide range of devices in the near future, so this is a timely subject of study. You are looking for a technology that will replace the requirement for a line-of-sight transmission between devices like digital cameras, fax machines, and printers, and you also would like the data transfers between the devices to occur at a rate of up to 3 Mbps. Which of the following network standards is a good match for your needs?

• A) Wi-Fi
• B) RFID
• C) Bluetooth
• D) TCP/IP

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