Compounds. There are more carbon compounds than there are compounds of all other elements combined. The study of carbon compounds, both natural and synthetic, is called organic chemistry. Plastics, foods, textiles, and many other common substances contain carbon.
backplane is the shared capacity between interfaces on a switch switch fabric is also the shared capacity between interfaces on a switch and can also be the shared capacity between interfaces on multiple switches using some sort of interconnect, typically vendor specific.
Service set (802.11 network) In computer networking, a service set (SS) is a set consisting of all the devices associated with a consumer or enterprise IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN). The service set can be local, independent, extended or mesh.