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DWS-1008 User's Manual
Public-Key Cryptography Standards
See PKCS.
public-key infrastructure
See PKI.
PVST+
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree protocol. A proprietary Cisco protocol that supports a separate
instance of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) for each virtual LAN (VLAN) in a network
and maps the multiple spanning trees to a single tree, to comply with the IEEE 802.1Q
specification. See also STP.
QoS
Quality of service. A networking technology that seeks to measure, improve, and guarantee
transmission rates, error rates, and other performance characteristics, based on priorities,
policies, and reservation criteria arranged in advance. Some protocols allow packets or
streams to include QoS requirements.
quality of service
See QoS.
RA
See registration authority (RA).
radio profile
A group of parameters, such as the beacon interval, fragmentation threshold, and security
policies, that you configure in common across a set of radios in one or more DWL-8220AP
access points. A few parameters, such as the radio name and channel number, must be set
separately for each radio.
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. A client-server security protocol described in
RFC 2865 and RFC 2866. RADIUS extensions, including RADIUS support for the Extensible
Authentication Protocol (EAP), are described in RFC 2869. Originally developed by Livingston
Enterprises, Inc., to authenticate, authorize, and account for dial-up users, RADIUS has been
widely extended to broadband and enterprise networking. The RADIUS server stores user
profiles, which include passwords and authorization attributes.
RC4
A common encryption algorithm, designed by RSA Data Security, Inc., used by the Wired-
Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).
received signal strength indication
See RSSI.
D-Link Systems, Inc.
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