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Aolynk DR811/DR814 ADSL2+Broadband Router 9 Appendix - Glossary
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9 Appendix - Glossary
10BASE-T
A designation for the type of wiring used by Ethernet networks
with a data rate of 10 Mbps. Also known as Category 3 (CAT 3)
wiring. See also data rate, Ethernet.
100BASE-T
A designation for the type of wiring used by Ethernet networks
with a data rate of 100 Mbps. Also known as Category 5 (CAT 5)
wiring.
See also data rate, Ethernet
.
ADSL
Asymmetric
Digital
Subscriber
Line
The most commonly deployed "flavor" of
DSL for home users is
asymmetrical DSL. The term asymmetrical refers to its unequal
data rates for downloading and uploading (the download rate is
higher than the upload rate). The asymmetrical rates benefit
home users because they typically download much more data
from the Internet than they upload.
ATM
Asynchrono
us Transfer
Mode
A standard for high-speed transmission of data, text, voice, and
video, widely used within the Internet. ATM data rates range
from 45 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps.
See also data rate
.
authenticate
To verify a user’s identity, such as by prompting for a password.
binary
The "base two" system of numbers, which uses only two digits, 0
and 1, to represent all numbers. In binary, the number 1 is
written as 1, 2 as 10, 3 as 11, 4 as 100, etc. Although expressed
as decimal numbers for convenience, IP addresses in actual
use are binary numbers; e.g., the IP address 209.191.4.240 is
11010001.10111111.00000100.11110000 in binary.
See also
bit, IP address, network mask
.
bit
Short for "binary digit," a bit is a number that can have two
values, 0 or 1.
See also binary
.
bps
bits per second
bridging
Passing data from your network to your ISP and vice versa
using the hardware addresses of the devices at each location.
Bridging contrasts with routing, which can add more intelligence
to data transfers by using network addresses instead. The
ADSL router can perform both routing and bridging. Typically,
when both functions are enabled, the device routes IP data and
bridges all other types of data. See also
routing
.
broadband
A telecommunications technology that can send different types
of data over the same medium. DSL is a broadband technology.
broadcast
To send data to all computers on a network.