Sony Ericsson Wireless Manager 4.0 User Manual page 101

SIM card
Subscriber Identity Module card – a card that must be
inserted in any GSM-based mobile terminal. It contains
subscriber details, security information and memory for
a personal directory of phone numbers. The card can be
a small plug-in type or credit card-sized, but both types
have the same functions. Most Sony Ericsson PC cards
use the small plug-in card.
SMS
Short Message Service. Allows messages of up to 160
characters to be sent and received via the network
operator's message centre to a SMS-enabled PC card.
SMS CB
Short Message Service Cell Broadcast is designed for
simultaneous delivery of messages to multiple users in
a specified area. Typically, GSM operators use SMS CB
to send different news or data to users who subscribe
to the service.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
TCP/IPv4
TCP/IP Version 4. Most widely implemented form of
TCP/IP today having a 4 byte address format such as
212.161.127.136.
TE
Terminal Equipment. Generic term for GSM terminals
such as phones and PC cards.
Terminal Adaptor
Generic term for the equipment terminating a digital
communications line such as an ISDN2 line. Your
Sony Ericsson PC card is a Terminal Adaptor since
it interfaces to GSM digital data services.
TLS
Transport Layer Security. Used by Web browsers,
for example.
TX
Transmit
Type II
Refers to thickness of a PC Card as defined in the
specification from PCMCIA.
UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
UMTS is a 3G technology standard for wide-area wireless
data communication that is based on the GSM standard.
The UMTS standard uses advanced network operator
mobile internet services to achieve data transfer rates
up to 384 kbps, which are ideal for media streaming,
video MMS, instant shopping and banking.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator.
USSD
Unstructured Supplementary Services Data.
Narrow-band GSM data service. For example, entering
*79*1234# might return the stock price for stock 1234.
V.110
ETSI standard for data over an ISDN circuit.
V.120
ETSI standard for data over an ISDN circuit.
VPN
Virtual Private Network.
WHQL
Windows Hardware Quality Labs. A Microsoft test and
approval process. The Device Drivers for Sony Ericsson
PC cards are signed by WHQL so that Windows 2000
and XP do not warn the user of unknown and untested
software.
WWW
World Wide Web.
XML
Extensible Markup Language.
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