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L Glossary
Wireless Local
Area Network
(WLAN)
A flexible data communications system implemented as an extension to, or as an alternative
for a wired LAN. Using radio frequency (RF) technology, wireless LANs transmit and receive
data over the air, minimizing the need for wired connections.
Wireless
Medium (WM)
The medium used to implement the transfer of protocol data units (PDUs) between peer
physical layer (PHY) entities of a wireless local area network (LAN).
Wire Tapping
Connecting to a network and monitoring all traffic. Most wire tapping features can only
monitor the traffic on their subnet.
WWW
(World Wide Web) – Frequently used when referring to "The Internet", WWW has two major
meanings – First, loosely used: the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using
Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Second, the universe of
hypertext servers (HTTP servers).