Appendix A: Glossary Of Terms - NetComm NP2624M User Manual

Appendix A: Glossary of Terms

NUMBERS
10BASE-T
100BASE-TX
802.11g
A
Access point
Applet
ASCII
ARP
AVI
B
BOOTP
C
Communication
Connection
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10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III,IV, or V unshielded
twisted-pair media.
The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is called
100BASE-TX.
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers
transmissions speeds at up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and video
file type, a common format for small movies and videos.
Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically
configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its own
IP address.
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.
In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate
with each other.
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