Hawking Technology HNC300, HNC320G manual Glossary of Terms, Numbers

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Numbers
10BASE-T	10BASE-T is (10Mbps) 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 (100Mbps
	Fast Ethernet).
802.11g	An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers transmissions speeds of up to 54
	Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
A
Access point	A device that acts as the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired LAN. The
	access point attaches to the wired LAN through an Ethernet connection.
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 from which 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, which
	delivers data on the same network by translating an IP address to a physical address.
AVI	Audio Video Interleave. This is a Windows platform audio and video file type, a common format
	for small movies and videos.
B
BOOTP	Bootstrap Protocol. 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 & processes communicate messages to each other over media.
	They represent the senders 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.

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