Glossary And Abbreviations - Proxim ORiNOCO AP-800 Hardware Installation Manual

Glossary and Abbreviations

Glossary
Access point
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Dual-Band
HTTP/HTTPS
Management Information Base (MIB)
Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM)
ORiNOCO® 802.11n Access Points - Hardware Installation Guide
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A wireless network transceiver or "base station" hub, often used to
connect a local area network to one or more wireless devices. An access
point (also called AP) can provide a communication link to a wired local
area network also.
It is a symmetric-key encryption standard, containing three block ciphers
AES-128, AES-192, AES-256. Each of these ciphers has a 128-bit block
size, with key sizes of 128, 192 and 256 bits, respectively.
D
Dual-band refers to a device's ability to function on two different
frequency bands.
H
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol to transport Web pages.
When you access the Internet with your browser, the HTTP protocol is
used for data transport (http://www.Tsunamiwireless.com). When you
access the unit by using the Web Interface, HTTP is used to transport the
information. HTTPS is the Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
M
A Management Information Base (MIB) is a formal description of a set of
network objects that can be managed with the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP). A MIB can be loaded by a management
application so that it knows the unit specific objects.
O
OFDM is a frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) scheme, a method of
encoding digital data on multiple carrier frequencies. A large number of
closely spaced orthogonal sub-carrier signals are used to carry data. The
data is divided into several parallel data streams/channels, one for each
sub-carrier, maintaining total data rates similar to conventional
single-carrier modulation schemes in the same bandwidth.
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