HEX: | Hexadecimal, HEX, consists of numbers from 0 – 9 and letters from | |
| A – F. |
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IEEE: | The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which is |
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| the largest technical professional society that promotes the |
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| development and application of electrotechnology and allied |
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| sciences for the benefit of humanity, the advancement of the |
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| profession. The IEEE fosters the development of standards that |
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| often become national and international standards. |
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Infrastructure: | An infrastructure network is a wireless network or other small |
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| network in which the wireless network devices are made a part of | |
| the network through the Access Point which connects them to the | |
| rest of the network. |
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ISM Band: | he FCC and their counterparts outside of the U.S. have set aside |
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| bandwidth for unlicensed use in the ISM (Industrial, Scientific and | |
| Medical) band. Spectrum in the vicinity of 2.4GHz, in particular, is | |
| being made available worldwide. |
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MAC Address: | Media Access Control Address is a unique hex number assigned |
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| by the manufacturer to any Ethernet networking device, such |
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| as a network adapter, that allows the network to identify it at the |
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| hardware level. |
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Multicasting: | Sending data to a group of nodes instead of a single destination. |
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Multiple Bridge: | One of the additional AP operating modes offered by 54Mbps |
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| Access Point, which allows a group of APs that consists of two or | |
| more APs to connect two or more Ethernet networks or Ethernet |
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| enabled clients together. The way that multiple bridge setups is |
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| based on the topology of |
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NP642 IEEE 802.11g PCI Adapter | 29 | |
YML785 Rev1 |
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