Glossary - VCS VIP 10 User Manual

Chapter 13

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 rate
Bit/s
CIF
DHCP
DNS
FTP
Full duplex
G.711, G.728
GOP
H.224
H.261
HTTP
HTML
hub
ICMP
ID
IEEE
IGMP
Internet Protocol
IP
IP address
ISDN
ISP
VIP 10 / VIP 1000
IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 or 100 MBit/s Ethernet
Address Resolution Protocol: a protocol for mapping MAC
and IP addresses
The data transfer rate
Bits per second, the actual data rate
Common Intermediate Format, video format with 352 × 288
pixels
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol: a protocol for dynamic
allocation of IP addresses
Domain Name Service
File Transfer Protocol
Simultaneous data transmission in both directions (sending
and receiving)
Standard ITU-T audio coding algorithms
Group of pictures
Standard protocol for data communication and remote control
Standard video CODEC published by ITU-T
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Markup Language
Multiplexer to connect a number of Ethernet units to a
10 Base-T segment
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
Internet Service Provider
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