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Glossary
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UPnP
Universal Plug & Play
UPnP technology is used to spontaneously link home or small office networks. Devices
that support UPnP carry out their network configuration automatically once they are
connected to a network. They also provide their own services or use services of other
devices on the network automatically.
URL
Universal Resource Locator
Globally unique address of a domain on the
Internet .
Virtual server
A virtual
Server provides a service on the Internet that runs on another network compo-
nent, not on the server itself. The Gigaset SE366 WLAN can be configured as a virtual
server. It will then direct incoming calls for a service via
Port Forwarding directly to the
appropriate Port of the network component in the local network.
WAN
Wide Area Network
A WAN is a wide area network, which is not restricted to one particular area. The Internet
is the most frequently used WAN. A WAN is run by one or more public providers to ena-
ble private access. You access the Internet via an
Internet Provider .
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
WEP is a security protocol defined in the
IEEE 802.11 standard. It is used to protect wire-
less transmissions in a WLAN against unauthorised access with Encryption of the data
transmitted.
WLAN
Wireless LAN
Wireless LANs enable network components to communicate with a network using radio
waves as the transport medium. A wireless LAN can be connected as an extension to an
existing wired LAN or it can form the basis for a new network. The basic element of a
wireless network is the radio cell. This is the area in which wireless communication takes
place. A WLAN can be operated in
Ad-hoc mode or Infrastructure mode .
WLAN is currently specified in the IEEE 802.11 standard. The Gigaset SE366 WLAN hard-
ware complies with standard 802.11n (draft). A software update will be provided when
the standard is passed.
WPA
WPA was developed to improve the security provided by
WEP . WPA uses more complex
procedures to generate keys, e.g. TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol). In addition,
WPA can use an authentication server (e.g. a RADIUS server) to improve security.