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HGlossary of Terms
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10BASE-T
10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III,IV, or V unshielded
twisted-pair media.
100BASE-TX
The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is
called 100BASE-TX.
802.11b
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers
transmissions speeds at up to 11 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
A
Access point
It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired
LAN. The access point attaches to the wired LAN through an
Ethernet connection.
Applet
Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an
HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only
make an Internet connection to the computer form that the applet
was sent.
ASCII
American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the
standard method for encoding characters as 8-
b
it sequences of
binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters.
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the
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TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same network by
translating an IP address to a physical address.
AVI
Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and video
file type, a common format for small movies and videos.
B
BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically
configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its
own IP address.
C
Communication
Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message,
and medium. In networks, devices and application tasks and
processes communicate messages to each other over media. They
represent the sender and receivers. The data they send is the
message. The cabling or transmission method they use is the
medium.
Connection
In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate
with each other.
D
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol was developed by
Microsoft a protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses to
devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can
have a different IP address every time it connects to the network.
In some systems, the device's IP address can even change while it
is still connected. DHCP also supports a mix of static and dynamic
IP addresses. This simplifies the task for network administrators