Glossary

This glossary defines terms used in this manual or related to this product and is not a comprehensive glossary of computer terms.

NUMERICS

8B/10B

A data encoding scheme developed by IBM, translating byte-wide data to an encoded 10-bit format.

10BaseT

An implementation of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Ethernet standard on 24-gauge unshielded twisted-pair wiring, a baseband medium at 10 Mbps.

100BaseT

An implementation of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Ethernet standard on 24-gauge unshielded twisted-pair wiring, a baseband medium at 100 Mbps.

A

AC

See alternating current.

access

The ability and means necessary to store data in, to retrieve data from, to transfer data into, to communicate with, or to make use of any resource of a storage device, a system, or area such as random access memory (RAM) or a register.

access control

A list of all devices that can access other devices across the network and the permissions associated with that access. See also persistent binding; zoning.