Appendix A Glossary; Terms And Definitions - NEC SMB8000 Manual

Appendix A
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ECTION ERMS AND
The following terms are used in this document. The term or acronym is listed as well
as the associated definition. The terms are listed in alphabetical order.
Term
Ethernet
Gateway
Internet
IP Address
MAC Address
MDIX
NVRAM
PoE
PVID
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Glossary
D
EFINITIONS
Definition
Ethernet is a family of frame-based computer networking
technologies for local area networks (LANs). It defines a
number of wiring and signaling standards for the physical
layer, through means of network access at the Media Access
Control (MAC)/Data Link Layer and a common addressing
format.
Gateway (computer networking), a node that serves as an
entrance to another network and vice versa.
The global digital network.
A unique address that certain electronic devices use in order
to identify and communicate with each other on a computer
network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP) – in
simpler terms, a computer address.
A worldwide unique physical address required for all
equipment on the internet.
Medium Dependent Interface Crossover
Non-Volatile Random Access Memory describes any type of
random access memory which does not lose its information
when power is turned off.
Power over Ethernet describes a system to transmit
electrical power, along with data, to remote devices over
standard twisted-pair cable in an Ethernet network.
Port VLAN Identifier is the per-port value to be used for
applying VID assignments to untagged frames, during the
ingress process. PVID initially reflects the default VLAN
value, for all ports.
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