Wire World Of America 1800 manual Glossary

Glossary

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Access Point. A device that transports data between a wireless network and a wired network. With the help of the system, a wireless base station is an example of an access point that acts between a wireless node and with other wired PCs and peripherals.

ADSL. See Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI). A non-governmental organization delegated with the responsibility of developing and publishing standards for transmission codes, protocols, and high-level languages for use in the United States.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). A coding method that assigns specific letters, numbers, punctuation, and control codes to a combination of 0s and 1s in a byte. ASCII is the code by which most all personal computers encodes and translates data. ASCII was developed by the American National Standards Institute (see above).

Analog. A continuously varying signal or wave. Telephone transmission and/or switching that is not digital.

ANSI. See American National Standards Institute.

Applet. Small computer programs that can be downloaded quickly and used by computers with a Java- capable browser.

ASCII. See American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). A group of DSL technologies that are asymmetric, thereby reserving more downstream bandwidth (coming to the user from the Internet) than upstream bandwidth (going from the user to the Internet). This type of DSL is advantageous for residential users that do not need the same bandwidth speed in both directions. Also see DSL

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). A method of data transportation whereby fixed-length cells are sent over a switched network. Because of its uniform handling of services, one network can meet the needs of many broadband users, for the receipt of voice, video, and data.

ATM. See Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

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Backbone. The part of a communications network that handles the major traffic using the highest-speed – and often longest – paths in the network.

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