| Glossary |
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socket | The association of a port with an IP address, serving as an identification of sender |
| or recipient. |
stack | The software code which implements the protocol being used. In the case of the |
| NOE modules it is TCP/IP. |
STP | Shielded Twisted Pair. A type of cabling consisting of several strands of wire |
| surrounded by foil shielding, twisted together. |
subnet | A physical or logical network within an IP network, which shares a network address |
| with other portions of the network. |
subnet mask | Used to indicate which bits in an IP address identify a subnet. |
switch | A network device which connects two or more separate network segments and |
| allows traffic to be passed between them. A switch determines whether a frame |
| should be blocked or transmitted based on its destination address. |
T
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol. |
TCP/IP | A protocol suite consisting of the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet |
| Protocol; the suite of communications protocols on which the Internet is based. |
U
UDP | User Datagram Protocol. A protocol which transmits data over IP. |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator. The network address of a file. |
UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair. A type of cabling consisting of insulated cable strands |
| which are twisted together in pairs. |
W
Winsock | The Microsoft implementation of the Windows Sockets networking API based on |
| the Berkeley UNIX Sockets interface for supporting TCP/IP. |
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