Glossary – Verizon PC5750 User Manual

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4. GLOSSARY

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Analog Coverage

An area where analog service is available. Analog phones usually indicate signal

strength on an indicator in the phone's display when receiving an analog signal.

Browser

The software that allows you to view the Internet; contains navigator commands

such as forward and back; such as Netscape, Microsoft Explorer. A Web browser

in your computer requests HTML files from Web servers; takes you to the

Internet sites you wish to visit, by linking your computer's IP address to a site's IP

address.

COM PORT (communications port)

A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.

Data

Information kept in databases, on an intranet, on the Internet, etc.

Data-Capable Digital Phone

A digital phone capable of processing data calls. Data calls may include

accessing the Internet by launching the browser within the phone or using the

phone as a wireless modem to access the Internet, or sending and receiving

email and faxes while the phone is connected to the serial port of a PC or PDA.

Digital Coverage

An area where digital service is available. Digital capable phones indicate a "D"

on the phone's display when the phone is receiving a digital signal.

Driver

Software that controls a device.

Inactivity Time-Out

A stoppage in a connection, which usually occurs after a period of time elapses,

without activity. Time-out settings are usually determined by the network.

Internet

A cooperatively run, globally distributed collection of computer networks that

exchange information via a common set of rules for exchanging data (Transfer

Control Protocol/Internet Protocol or TCP/IP). Intranet An intranet is a web site

created by a business, which posts its own company information in a secure part

of the Internet that only employees or other authorized users can reach. Intranets

are generally protected by firewalls.

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