Huawei DR814Q - Manual (Page 104)

User Manual
Aolynk DR814Q ADSL2+ Broadband Router
11 Appendix - Glossary
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1
ission distance of 100 meters
ft) and maximum transmission rate of 100 Mbps.
1
A
r download and upload (the
is higher than the upload rate).The asymmetrical rate benefits home
ly download much more data from the Internet than they
A
de. A technology that uses fixed length packets, called cells,
he packet-switched network. The cell, consisting of a cell header and the text, are
ched over a public or private ATM network. The individual ATM segments in the
Binary
umber system just uses two digits, 0 and 1, to represent all the numbers. In
addresses actually
ry numbers. For instance, the IP address 209.191.4.240 is converted into
111111.00000100.11110000 in binary.
B
rn your ISP sends the data to
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Appendix - Glossary
00Base-TX
Category 5 twisted pair cable with the maximum transm
(328
0Base-T
Category 3/4/5 twisted pair cable with the maximum transmission distance of 150
meters (492 ft) and the maximum transmission rate of 10 Mbps.
DSL
Asymmetric digital subscriber line. The most popular flavor of DSL for home users. The
term asymmetrical refers to its unequal data rates fo
download rate
users because they typical
upload.
TM
Asynchronous transfer mo
for t
swit
ATM switch cross connect to each other, forming the end-to-end connection.
The binary n
this system, the decimal digit 1 is represented by 1, 2 by 10, 3 by 11, 4 by 100, and so
on. Although it is convenient to express numbers in decimal, the IP
use bina
11010001.10
ridging
The data is sent from your network to your ISP and in retu
the devices on the network by the physical addresses. Compared with routing, bridging
makes it more intelligent to transfer data by using network addresses. DR814Q can