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Appendix
Glossary
A few brief explanations of the most important terms and abbreviations used in
the field of communications technology can be found below.
10/100 Base-T
ARP
Baud
Bit/s
CIF
DNS
FTP
Full duplex
G.711
GOP
HTTP
ICMP
ID
IEEE
IGMP
Internet Protocol
IP
IP address
ISDN
JPEG
kBit/s
LAN
Local area network
M-JPEG
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IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 or 100 MBit/s Ethernet
Address Resolution Protocol: a protocol for mapping MAC
and IP addresses
Measure for the speed of the data transfer rate
Bits per second, the actual data rate
Common Intermediate Format, video format with 352 × 288
pixels
Domain Name Service
File Transfer Protocol
Simultaneous data transmission in both directions (sending
and receiving)
Standard ITU-T audio coding algorithms
Group of pictures
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Internet Control Message Protocol
Identification: a machine-readable character sequence
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Internet Group Management Protocol
The main protocol used on the Internet. Together with the
Transfer Control Protocol (TCP), it constitutes "TCP/IP"
See "Internet Protocol"
A 4-byte number uniquely defining each device on the
Internet. It is usually written in dotted decimal notation with
periods separating the bytes, for example "209.130.2.193".
Integrated Services Digital Network
An encoding process for still images (Joint Photographic
Experts Group)
Kilobits per second, the actual data rate
See Local area network
A communications network serving users within a limited
geographical area, such as a building or a university campus.
It is controlled by a network operating system and uses a
transfer protocol.
Motion-JPEG; the video sequence is generated stringing
together JPEG-images
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