Surecom EP-816DX-FW User Manual page 8

Bandwidth
The difference between the
synonymous with wire speed, the actual speed of the data transmission along the cable.
CSMA/CD
Carrier Sense Multiple
Ethernet and Fast Ethernet.
Full Duplex
Transmission method that allows switch and network card to
effectively doubling the bandwidth of that link.
Port Trunk
Defines a network link
high-speed logical link that combines several lower-speed physical links.
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
A Virtual LAN is a collection of network nodes that share the same collision domain regardless of
their physical location or connection point in the network. A
with no physical barriers, and allows users to share information and resources as though located on
the same LAN.
IEEE 802.1Q
VLAN Tagging—Defines Ethernet frame tags which carry
switches to assign endstations to different
communicate across switched networks.
IEEE 802.1p
An IEEE standard for providing
uses packet tags that define up to
on the tagged priority value.
Port Mirroring
A method whereby data on a target port is mirrored to a monitor port for troubleshooting with a
logic analyzer or RMON
highest and lowest
Access/Collision Detect
aggregation and trunking method
virtual LANs,
quality of service (QoS)
eight traffic classes
probe. This allows data on the target port to be studied unobstructively.
frequencies available for network signals. Also
is the communication method employed by
transmit and receive
which specifies how to create a
VLAN serves
VLAN
and defines a standard way for VLANs to
in Ethernet networks. The standard
and allows switches to transmit packets based
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concurrently,
as a logical workgroup
information. It allows
single