Appendix B: Glossary

5Appendix B: Glossary

10BaseT - An Ethernet standard that uses twisted wire pairs. 100BaseTX

-IEEE physical layer specification for 100 Mbps over two pairs of Category

5 UTP or STP wire.

1000BASE-T- A 100 Mbps technology based on the Ethernet/CD network access method. Provides half-duplex (CSMA/CD) and full-duplex 1000 Mbps Ethernet service over Category 5 links as defined by ANSI/TIA/EIA- 568-A. Topology rules for 1000BASE-T are the same as those used for 100BASE-T. Category 5 link lengths are limited to 100 meters by the ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-A cabling standard. Only one CSMA/CD repeater will be allowed in a collision domain.

Adapter - Printed circuit board that plugs into a PC to add capabilities or connectivity to a PC. In a networked environment, a network interface card (NIC) is the typical adapter that allows the PC or server to connect to the intranet and/or Internet.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - The coordinating body for voluntary standards groups within the United States. ANSI is a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) - This is the code that most computers use to represent displayable characters. An ASCII file is a straightforward text file without special control characters.

Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) - A new standard for transmitting at speeds up to 7 Mbps over a single copper pair.

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Auto-negotiate- To automatically determine the correct settings. The term is often used with communications and networking. For example, Ethernet 10/100 cards, hubs, and switches can determine the highest speed of the node they are connected to and adjust their transmission rate accordingly.

Backbone – The part of a network that connects most of the systems and networks together and handles the most data.

Bandwidth – 1. Measure of the information capacity of a transmission

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