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C GLOSSARY
10Base2 An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps over thin Ethernet cable.
10Base5 An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps over thick Ethernet cable.
10BaseT An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps over unshielded
100BaseVG An IEEE standard for using the new IEEE 802.12 protocol at 100 Mbps over unshielded
100BaseT A proprietary standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 100 Mbps over unshielded
802.3An IEEE standard for the physical layer that specifies a CSMA/CD protocol. This is the standard protocol used for Ethernet. Refer to CSMA/CD.
Address The unique code assigned to each device or workstation connected to the LAN.
Age The process of removing an address from the unit’s filtering database after the device has not transmitted for a given period of time.
ANSI American National Standards Institute.
Application layer Layer seven, the uppermost part of the OSI network layer model. This layer contains the user and application programs.