H Glossary Of Term - Ovislink AirLive WL-5400CAM User Manual

H Glossary of Terms
NUMBERS
10BASE-T
100BASE-TX
802.11g
A
Access point
Applet
ASCII
ARP
AVI
B
BOOTP
C
Communication
Connection
D
DHCP
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.
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers transmissions speeds at up to 54
Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired LAN. The access point attaches
to the wired LAN through an Ethernet connection.
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.
Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message, and medium. In networks,
devices and application tasks and processes communicate messages to each other over media.
They represent the sender and receivers. The data they send is the message. The cabling or
transmission method they use is the medium.
In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate with each other.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol was developed by Microsoft a protocol for assigning
dynamic IP addresses to devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can have a
different IP address every time it connects to the network. In some systems, the device's IP
address can even change while it is still connected. DHCP also supports a mix of static and
dynamic IP addresses. This simplifies the task for network administrators because the software
keeps track of IP addresses rather than requiring an administrator to manage the task. This means
a new computer can be added to a network without the hassle of manually assigning it a unique
IP address. DHCP allows the specification for the service provided by a router, gateway, or other
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