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Static Routing – Forwarding data in a network via a fixed path.

Static routing cannot adjust to changing line conditions as can dynamic routing.

Subnet Mask – The method used for splitting IP networks into a series of subgroups, or subnets. The mask is a binary pattern that is matched up with the IP address to form part of the host ID address field into a field for subnets.

Switch – 1. A data switch connects computing devices to host computers, allowing a large number of devices to share a limited number of ports.

2.A device for making, breaking, or changing the connections in an electrical circuit.

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) – A method (protocol) used along with the Internet Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of message units between computers over the Internet. While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP keeps track of the individual units of data (called packets) that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet.

TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communication protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with access to the Internet, your computer is uses the TCP/IP protocol.

TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) – A version of the TCP/IP FTP protocol that has no directory or password capability.

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Throughput – The amount of data moved successfully from one place to another in a given time period.

Topology – A network’s topology is a logical characterization of how the devices on the network are connected and the distances between them.

The most common network devices include hubs, switches, routers, and gateways. Most large networks contain several levels of interconnection, the most important of which include edge connections, backbone connections, and wide-area connections.

UDP (User Datagram Protocol) – A communications method (protocol) that offers a limited amount of service when messages are exchanged between computers in a network that uses the Internet Protocol (IP). UDP is an alternative to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and, together with IP, is sometimes referred to as UDP/IP. Like the Transmission Control Protocol, UDP uses the Internet Protocol to actually get a data unit (called a datagram) from one computer to another. Unlike TCP, however, UDP does not provide the service of dividing a message into packets (datagrams) and reassembling it at the other end. Specifically, UDP doesn’t provide sequencing of the packets that the data arrives in. This means that the application program that uses UDP must be able to make sure that the entire message has arrived and is in the right order. Network applications that want to save processing time because they have very small data units to exchange (and therefore very little message reassembling to do) may prefer UDP to TCP.

Upgrade – To replace existing software of firmware with a newer version.