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802.11b | An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers |
| transmissions speeds at up to 11 Mbps in the |
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Access point | It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired |
| LAN. The access point attaches to the wired LAN through an |
| Ethernet connection. |
Applet | Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an |
| HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only |
| make an Internet connection to the computer form that the applet |
| was sent. |
ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the |
| standard method for encoding characters as |
| binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters. |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the |
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| TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same network by |
| translating an IP address to a physical address. |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and video |
| file type, a common format for small movies and videos. |
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BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its own IP address.
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Communication Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message, and medium. In networks, devices and application tasks and processes communicate messages to each other over media. They represent the sender and receivers. The data they send is the message. The cabling or transmission method they use is the medium.
Connection In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate with each other.
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DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol was developed by Microsoft a protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses to devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can have a different IP address every time it connects to the network. In some systems, the device's IP address can even change while it is still connected. DHCP also supports a mix of static and dynamic IP addresses. This simplifies the task for network administrators
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