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Appendix C Glossary

10Base-T

IEEE 802.3 standard for the use of Ethernet LAN technology over unshielded twisted pair wiring, running at 10Mbps.

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - Technology that delivers high-speed data and voice connections over existing phone lines. Up to 8 Mbits/sec can be sent downstream and 640 Kbits/sec upstream.

ANSI (American National Standards Institute)

Devises and proposes recommendations for international communications standards.

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol. An Internet protocol used to bind an IP address to Ethernet/802.3 addresses.

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. 8-bit code for character representation.

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode - Cell-relay broadband technology for high-speed transmission of video, audio, data over LAN/WAN, making use of fixed-size cells (53-byte cells).

Bridge

A device that segments network traffic. A bridge maintains a list of each segment’s nodes and only traffic destined for a node on the adjacent segment is passed across the bridge. A bridge operates at Layer 2 of the OSI reference model.