Airlink101 AICN1747W user manual A.3 Glossary of Terms, Numbers

A.3 Glossary of Terms

NUMBERS

10BASE-T	10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III, IV, or V unshielded twisted-pair media.
100BASE-TX	The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is called 100BASE-TX.

A

ADPCM	Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new technology improved from PCM,
	which encodes analog sounds to digital form.
AMR	AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is an audio data compression 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 8-bit 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.

C

Communication	Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message, and medium. In
	networks, devices and application tasks and processes communicate messages to
	each other over media. They represent the sender 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.

D

DHCP	Developed by Microsoft, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol for
	assigning dynamic IP addresses to devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a
	device can have a different IP address every time it connects to the network. In some
	systems, the device's IP address can even change while it is still connected. It also
	supports a mix of static and dynamic IP addresses. This simplifies the task for network
	administrators because the software keeps track of IP addresses rather than requiring
	an administrator to manage the task. A new computer can be added to a network
	without the hassle of manually assigning it a unique IP address. DHCP allows the
	specification for the service provided by a router, gateway, or other network device that
	automatically assigns an IP address to any device that requests one.
DNS	Domain Name System is an Internet service that translates domain names into IP
	addresses. Since domain names are alphabetic, they're easier to remember. The
	Internet however, is really based on IP addresses every time you use a domain name
	the DNS will translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the
	domain name www.network_camera.com might translate to 192.167.222.8.

E

Enterprise network	An enterprise network consists of collections of networks connected to each other over
	a geographically dispersed area. The enterprise network serves the needs of a widely

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