SOYO AVRO3001 Network Address Port Translation Napt, Password Authentication Protocol PAP, Ping

Network Address Port Translation (NAPT)

NAPT is a special case of NAT, where internal IP numbers are hidden behind a single external addresses, allowing you to connect many local users to the Internet with a single-user ISP account. With NAPT, an almost arbitrary number of connections is multiplexed using TCP port information

NTP

Network Time Protocol. A standard for synchronizing your system clock with the true time, defined as the average of many high-accuracy clocks around the world

Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)

A basic form of authentication, in which a user’s name and password are transmitted over a network and compared to a table of name-password pairs

PBX

Short for Private Branch eXchange, a private telephone network used within an enterprise. Users of the PBX share a certain number of outside lines for making telephone calls external to the PBX

Ping

A utility used to determine whether a specific IP address is accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified address and waiting for a reply

POP3

Post Office Protocol 3. A protocol that provides a simple, standardized way for users to access mailboxes and download messages to their computers

POTS

Short for Plain Old Telephone Service, which refers to the standard telephone service that most homes use. In contrast, telephone services based on high-speed, digital communications lines, such as ISDN and FDDI, are not POTS. The main distinctions between POTS and non-POTS services are speed and bandwidth. POTS is generally restricted to about 52 Kbps (52,000 bits per second).

Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)

A protocol for connecting remote hosts to the Internet over an always-on connection by simulating a dial-up connection

PSTN

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