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Glossary
HTTP proxy
An HTTP proxy is a
requests are sent via the proxy.
Hub
A hub connects several network components in a star-topology network by sending all
the data it receives from one network component to all the other network components.
See also Switch, Bridge, Router,
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
The IEEE is an international body for defining network standards, especially for stand-
ardising
LAN
IEEE 802.11
IEEE
802.11 is a standard for wireless LANs operating in the 2.4 GHz band. In so-called
Infrastructure
can connect with each other spontaneously
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
IGMP is an Internet
routers that it is a member of a multicast group. With multicasting, a computer can send
content on the Internet to several other computers that have registered an interest in
the first computer's content. Multicasting can, for example, be used for multimedia pro-
grams for media streaming to recipients that have set up multicast group membership.
Infrastructure mode
Infrastructure mode is a way of operating wireless local networks (WLANs) in which an
Access point
connection with each other as is the case in
Internet
The Internet is a wide-area network (WAN) linking several million users around the
world. A number of
known collectively as TCP/IP. All participants on the Internet can be identified by an
address. Servers are addressed by
are assigned to IP addresses by the Domain Name Service (DNS).
These are some of the main Internet services:
u
Electronic mail (e-mail)
u
The World Wide Web (WWW)
u
File transfer (FTP)
u
Discussion forums (Usenet / Newsgroups)
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Server
that network components use for their
Gateway
technologies, transfer protocols, data transfer speeds and wiring.
mode, terminals can be connected to a base station
Protocol
that enables an Internet computer to inform neighbouring
handles the data traffic. Network components cannot establish a direct
Protocols
have been created for exchanging data, and these are
Domain names
Internet
(Access
(Ad-hoc
mode).
Ad-hoc
mode.
(e.g. siemens.com). Domain names
traffic. All
point) or they
IP
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