Appendices
Glossary D
A resistor connected to the end of a coax cable which is intended to match the characteristic impedance of a cable. Signals are dissipated in the terminator, eliminating reflections.
Topology is the organization of network components. The topology of Token Ring network components is a ring.
The amount of uninterrupted time that a resource (such as a print server) has been available.
In Ethernet networks, a transceiver is used to couple electrical signals to and from an adapter to the transmission media. In ThinLAN and
A pair of wires that are twisted together to minimize crosstalk. Crosstalk is minimized with twisted pair wiring by canceling the magnetic fields generated in each of the twisted wires. Twisted pair cable (UTP or STP) is typically made up of several twisted pairs of wires.
Cable that is twisted by pairs but not shielded. This minimizes crosstalk by canceling the magnetic fields generated in each of the twisted wires, but only when a single twisted pair is used for Transmit or Receive.