Appendix 1: Acronyms And Terms - LevelOne WUA-0606 User Manual

Appendix 1: Acronyms and Terms

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
802.11
A family of specifications developed by the IEEE for WLAN
technology.
802.11a An extension to 802.11 WLAN standards that provides up to 54
Mbps transmission in the 5 GHz UNI radio band.
802.11b An extension to 802.11 WLAN standard that provides up to 11
Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz ISM radio band. 802.11b uses DSSS
modulation.
802.11g An extension to 802.11 WLAN standard that provides up to 54
Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz ISM radio band. 802.11b uses OFDM
modulation and is backwards compatible with 802.11b.
802.11n higher transmission rate, supports Multi-Input Multi-Output(MIMO）
technology.
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy. A security protocol for WLANs defined in
the IEEE 802.11 standard.
WPA Wireless Protected Access， adopts rotating keys.
RSN Robust Security Network，A substitute for WPA, and it adopts 802.1x
standard and advanced encryption
ICS Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing enables multi-computer to share
access to Internet via one PC.
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