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10Base2 An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps
over thin Ethernet cable.
10Base5 An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps
over thick Ethernet cable.
10BaseT An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps
over unshielded twisted-pair cable (the T stands for twisted pair).
100BaseVG An IEEE standard for using the new IEEE 802.12 protocol at
100 Mbps over unshielded twisted-pair cable of type 5 or type 3.
100BaseT A proprietary standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 100
Mbps over unshielded twisted-pair cable. IEEE standards approval
pending.
802.3 An IEEE standard for the physical layer that specifies a CSMA/CD
protocol. This is the standard protocol used for Ethernet. Refer to
CSMA/CD.
Address The unique code assigned to each device or workstation
connected to the LAN.
Age The process of removing an address from the unit's filtering
database after the device has not transmitted for a given period of time.
ANSI American National Standards Institute.
Application layer Layer seven, the uppermost part of the OSI network
layer model. This layer contains the user and application programs.
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