JPEG

Joint Photographic Expert Group (procedure to encode still images)

LAN

See Local Area Network

Local Area Network

Multiple computers linked together into a network to share information within a

 

limited geographic area (such as a building or a campus) controlled by a net-

 

work operating system and using a transport protocol

MAC Address

Media Access Control/hardware address

NAT

See Network Address Translator

Network Address

 

Translator

A proposal for IP address re-use where the local IP address is mapped to a glo-

 

bally unique address

Picture

A video picture that has been digitized at a particular resolution

PPP

See Point-To-Point Protocol

Point-To-Point

 

Protocol

A protocol allowing a computer using TCP/IP to connect directly to the Internet

Router

A physical device that connects multiple LANs

QCIF

Quarter CIF, video format with 176 x 144 pixels

Server Push

A continuous stream sent from the transmitter to the web browser

Subnet mask

A mask that explains which part of an IP address is the network address and

 

which part composes the host address. It is usually expressed in dotted-decimal

 

notation (for example, 255.255.255.192).

TCP

Transfer Control Protocol

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair

WAN

See Wide Area Network

Wide Area Network

Multiple LANs connected together, usually over a great distance

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