IPUX CS101A manual Glossary of Terms

A.2 Glossary of Terms

NUMBERS

10BASE-T	10BASE-T is 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.

A

ADPCM	Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new
	technology improved from PCM, which encodes analog
	sounds to digital form.
AMR	AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is an audio data compression
	scheme optimized for speech coding, which is adopted
	as the standard speech codec by 3GPP.
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 form that 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 that delivers data on
	the same network by translating an IP address to a
	physical address.
AVI	Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio
	and video file type, a common format for small movies
	and videos.

B

BOOTP	Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can
	automatically configure a network device in a diskless
	workstation to give its own IP address.

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