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G-2 Glossary
Category 5 Balanced Cable
Class I Repeater
Class II Repeater
Collision
Collision Domain
DTE
Balanced 100 ohms aand 120 ohms cables and associated connected
hardware whose transmission characteristics are specified up to 100
MHz as per ISO/IEC 11801 and clause 23 of the IEEE 802.3 standard.
A type of 100Base-T repeater with internal delay such that only one
repeater set may exist between any two DTEs within a single collision
domain.
A type of 100Base-T repeater with internal delay such that only two or
fewer such repeater sets may exist between any two DTEs within a
single collision domain.
A collision occurs when two or more nodes try to transmit
simultaneously. Large numbers of collisions may indicate a high
network load.
A single CSMA/CD network. If two or more Media Access Controllers
(MAC) are within the same collision domain and both transmit at the
same time, a collision will occur. MACs that are separated by a
repeater are in the same collision domain. MACs that are separated by
a bridge are within different collision domains.
Data Terminal Equipment. A DTE can be a source or destination
communications device (typically a computer) that sends or receives
network transmissions.