Cayman Systems 2E-H-W User Manual page 156

asynchronous
communication
AUI
backbone
baud rate
binary
bps
BRI
bridge
broadcast
broadcast address
buffer
carrier
CCITT
CD
Glossary
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Network system that allows data to be sent at irregular intervals by
preceding each octet with a start bit and following it with a stop bit.
Compare synchronous communication.
Attachment Unit Interface. Connector by which a thick (802.3)
Ethernet transceiver cable is attached to a networked device.
The segment of the network used as the primary path for
transporting traffic between network segments.
Unit of signaling speed equal to the number of number of times per
second a signal in a communications channel varies between states.
Baud is synonymous with bits per second (bps) if each signal
represents one bit.
Numbering system that uses only zeros and ones.
Bits per second. A measure of data transmission speed.
Basic Rate Interface. ISDN standard for provision of low-speed
ISDN services (two B channels (64 kbps each) and one D channel
(16 kbps)) over a single wire pair.
Device that passes packets between two network segments
according to the packets' destination address.
Message sent to all nodes on a network.
Special IP address reserved for simultaneous broadcast to all
network nodes.
Storage area used to hold data until it can be forwarded.
Signal suitable for transmission of information.
Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique or
Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone.
An international organization responsible for developing
telecommunication standards.
Carrier Detect.
Cayman 2E-H-W User's Guide
November 2000