The POTS network is also called the Public Switched Telephone Network
Quality of Service (QoS)
A network protocol used to specify a guaranteed throughput level. This protocol is often used by ATM providers to guarantee their customers a minimum
Router
A device used to interconnect networks over local or wide areas and provide traffic control and filtering functions
Routing
Routing forwards incoming IP packets using statically defined routes or a dynamic routing protocol such as RIP 2
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
A protocol that specifies how routers exchange routing table information
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, it’s the protocol that you use to send
Splitter
A hardware device used in G.dmt to split the data and voice traffic before passing it on to the network and phone system
Static IP
An IP address which is the same every time you log on to the Internet.
SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection)
Also referred to as dynamic packet filtering. Stateful inspection is a firewall architecture that works at the network layer. Stateful packet inspection tracks each connection traversing all interfaces of the firewall and makes sure they are valid.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Protocol suite that includes TCP as the primary transport protocol, and IPas the network layer protocol.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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