Glossary Of Terms - Encore ENVCWI-PTG1 - ADVANCED INSTALLATION GUIDE V1.1 Installation Manual

A.3 Glossary of Terms
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10BASE-T
100BASE-TX
A
ADPCM
Applet
ASCII
ARP
AVI
B
BOOTP
C
Communication Communication has four components: sender, receiver,
10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III, IV, or V
unshielded twisted-pair media.
The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-
T is called 100BASE-TX.
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new
technology improved from PCM, which encodes analog
sounds to digital form.
Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded
in an HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an
applet can only make an Internet connection to the
computer form that the applet was sent.
American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it
is the standard method for encoding characters as 8-bit
sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum of
256 characters.
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that
resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on
the same network by translating an IP address to a
physical address.
Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio
and video file type, a common format for small movies
and videos.
Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can
automatically configure a network device in a diskless
workstation to give its own IP address.
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