A college is building a new formitory on its campus. Workers are digging in the ground to install a new water pipe for the dormitory. During the process, a worker accidentally damages a fiber optic cable that connects two existing dormitories to the campus data center.Despite the cable being cut, students in the affected dormitories only experience a brief interruption of network services. What characteristic of the network is being demonstrated here? Quality of service (QoS) Security Fault tolerance Integrity Scalability

The characteristic of the network being demonstrated here is fault tolerance.<br /><br />Fault tolerance refers to the ability of a network to continue functioning properly even when one or more components fail or are damaged. In this scenario, the fiber optic cable connecting the dormitories to the campus data center was accidentally cut, but the students in the affected dormitories only experienced a brief interruption of network services. This indicates that the network was designed with fault tolerance in mind, allowing it to quickly recover from the failure and minimize the impact on the users.