Glossary And Setup Details - Cradlepoint CTR350 User Manual

Glossary and Setup Details

A
Access Control List
Access Point
Address R esolution
Protocol
ADSL
Advanced Encryption
Standard
Alphanumeric
Antenna
AppleTalk
AppleTalk Addr ess
Resolution Protocol
Application layer
ASCII
Attenuation
Authentication
Automatic Private IP
Addressing
B
Back ward Compati ble
Bandwidth
Basic Input/ Output System
Baud
Bit rate
BOOTP
Bottleneck
Broadband
Broadcast
Browser
C
Cable mod em
CardBus
ACL. Database of n etw ork devices that are allow ed t o access resources on the netw ork .
AP. Device that allow s w ireless clients to connect to it and access th e netw ork Ad- hoc netw ork
- Peer- to- Peer netw ork betw een w ireless clients
ARP. Used to map MAC ad dresses t o IP addr esses so that conversions c an be made in both
directions.
Asymm etric Digital Subscriber Line
AES. Gov ernment encryption standard
Characters A- Z and 0- 9
Used to transmit and receiv e RF signals.
A set of Local Area Netw ork protocols dev elop ed b y A pple for their co mputer syst ems
AARP. Used t o map the MAC ad dresses of Appl e com puters to their A pp leTalk netw ork
addresses, so that conv ersions can be made in both directions.
7th Layer of the O SI model. Provid es services to applications to ensure that they can
communicate prop erly w ith other applications on a ne tw ork .
American Standard C ode for Information Int erchange. This system of ch aracters is most
commonly use d for t ext files
The loss in strength of digital an analog signals. The l oss is grea ter w he n the signal is b eing
transmitted o ver long distances.
To provid e cred entials, lik e a Passw ord, in order to verify that the pers on or de vice is r eally
w ho they are claiming to b e
APIPA. An IP address that a Window s computer w ill assign its elf w hen it is configured to o btain
an IP address automatically but no DH CP serv er is availabl e on th e netw ork .
The ability for new d evices to co mmunicate and interact w ith ol der l ega cy devices to guarantee
interoperability
The maxi mum a mount of byt es or bits p er second that can be transmitt ed to and from a
netw ork device
BIOS. A program that the processor of a comput er uses to startup the system once it is turned
on
Data transmission speed
The amount of bits that pass in giv en am ount of ti me bit/ sec – bits p er second
Bootstrap Protocol. Allow s for co mputers t o b e boot ed up and giv en an IP address w ith no user
intervention
A tim e during processes w hen som ething causes the proc ess to slow do w n or stop all t ogeth er
A w ide band of frequ encies available for transmitting data
Transmitting data in all dir ections at once
A program that allow s you to access r esources on the w eb and provides them to you graphically
A devic e that allow s you to connect a co mputer up to a coaxial cabl e a nd receive Internet
access from your Ca ble provider
A new er v ersion of the PC Card or PCMC IA int erface. It supports a 32- bit data path, DMA, and
consumes less volta ge
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