twisted pair. Cable consisting of two copper strands twisted around each other. The twisting provides protection against electromagnetic interference.
UTP. Unshielded twisted pair cable.
VJ. Van Jacobson. Abbreviation for a compression standard documented in RFC 1144.
WAN. Wide Area Network. Private network facilities, usually offered by public telephone companies but increasingly avail- able from alternative access providers (sometimes called Com- petitive Access Providers, or CAPs), that link business network nodes.
WWW.World Wide Web.
