A.2 Glossary of Terms
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ADPCM | Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new |
| technology improved from PCM, which encodes analog |
| sounds to digital form. |
AMR | AMR (Adaptive |
| scheme optimized for speech coding, which is adopted |
| as the standard speech codec by 3GPP. |
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 |
| sequences of 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
BOOTP | Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can |
| automatically configure a network device in a diskless |
| workstation to give its own IP address. |
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