Appendix G: Glossary of Terms
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802.11g | An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers |
| transmissions speeds at up to 54 Mbps in the |
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 |
| binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters. |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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