2640A/2645A NetDAQ
Users Manual
UDP User Datagram Protocol. A portion of the TCP/IP protocol. It supports unreliable, connectionless, datagram services. UDP has much lower overhead (both time and space) than TCP, but is unreliable and should be used only when the application software provides algorithms for reliability, sequencing, flow control, and other such services usually provided by TCP.
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair also called 10BaseT. A network wiring scheme using twisted pair wiring and connectors that look somewhat like telephone jacks and plugs.
WAN Wide Area Network. A network that supports hosts at locations that are far apart. Usually refers to a network that covers more than one city and can refer to a
Windows An operating environment developed by the Microsoft Corporation. Also the name of a rectangular region on a computer screen containing the user interface for a task or a portion of a task. Each MS Windows application maintains at least one window (even though you can’t see some of them).
