J. Glossary of Terms |
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| Fast Ethernet). |
802.11g | An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers transmissions speeds of up to 54 |
| Mbps in the |
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Access point | A device that acts as 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 from which the applet was |
| sent. |
ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange. It is the standard method for encoding |
| characters as |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer, which |
| delivers data on the same network by translating an IP address to a physical address. |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave. This is a Windows platform audio and video file type, a common format |
| for small movies and videos. |
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BOOTP | Bootstrap Protocol. 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 & processes communicate messages to each other over media. |
| They represent the senders 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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