Appendix a: glossary of terms, Appendix a: glossary of terms numbers – NetComm NP2624M User Manual

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Appendix A: Glossary of Terms

NUMBERS

10BASE-T

10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III,IV, or V unshielded

twisted-pair media.

100BASE-TX

The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is called

100BASE-TX.

802.11g

An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers

transmissions speeds at up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.

A

Access point

It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired

LAN. The access point attaches to the wired LAN through an

Ethernet connection.

Applet

Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an HTML

page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only make an

Internet connection to the computer form that the applet was sent.

ASCII

American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the

standard method for encoding characters as 8-bit sequences of

binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters.

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the

TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same network by

translating an IP address to a physical address.


AVI

Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and video

file type, a common format for small movies and videos.

B

BOOTP

Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically

configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its own

IP address.

C

Communication

Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message, and

medium. In networks, devices and application tasks and processes

communicate messages to each other over media. They represent the

sender and receivers. The data they send is the message. The cabling

or transmission method they use is the medium.

Connection

In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate

with each other.

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