Motorola WN825G manual Wan, Wap, Wep, Wlan, Wpa, Www

GLOSSARY SECTION 5

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WAN

A wide-area network provides a connection over a large geographic area, such as a country or the whole world. The bandwidth depends on need and cost, but is usually much lower than for a LAN.

WAP

Wireless Access Point or Wireless Access Protocol. See also

Access Point.

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption protects the privacy of data transmitted over a wireless LAN. WEP uses keys to encrypt and decrypt transmitted data. The access point must authenticate a client before it can transfer data to another client. WEP is part of IEEE 802.11b.

Wi-Fi®

Wireless fidelity (pronounced why'-fy) brand name applied to products supporting IEEE 802.11b/g.

WLAN

Wireless LAN.

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access. A security regimen developed by IEEE for protection of data on a WLAN.

WWW

World Wide Web. An interface to the Internet that you use to navigate and hyperlink to information.

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