Prestige 642 PPPoE Modem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interface

device or devices. A command line is the line on the display screen where a command

 

 

 

 

 

 

is expected. Generally, the command line is the line that contains the most recently

 

 

 

 

 

 

displayed command prompt. An interface is a set of commands (for example, a ZyXEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

Command Line Interface) or menus (for example, a ZyXEL web configurator) used to

 

 

 

 

 

 

communicate with a program. A command-driven interface is an interface in which you

 

 

 

 

 

 

enter commands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPE

 

 

Customer Premise Equipment. CPE is privately-owned telecommunication equipment

 

 

 

 

 

 

at an organization’s site that is attached to the telecommunication network. CPE

 

 

 

 

 

 

includes routers, modems, PBXs, telephones, key systems, facsimile products, voice

 

 

 

 

 

 

processing equipment and video communication equipment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crossover

 

A cable that wires a pin to its opposite pin, for example, RX+ is wired to TX+. This

 

 

 

Ethernet Cable

 

 

cable connects two similar devices, for example, two data terminal equipment (DTE) or

 

 

 

 

 

 

data communications equipment (DCE) devices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DHCP

 

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol automatically assigns IP addresses to clients

 

 

 

 

 

 

when they log on. DHCP centralizes IP address management on central computers that

 

 

 

 

 

 

run the DHCP server program. DHCP leases addresses, for a period of time, which

 

 

 

 

 

 

means that past addresses are “recycled” and made available for future reassignment to

 

 

 

 

 

 

other systems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domain Name

 

The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain Names always have two or

 

 

 

 

 

 

more parts that are separated by dots. The part on the left is the most specific and the

 

 

 

 

 

 

part on the right is the most general.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DRAM

 

Dynamic RAM (Random Access Memory) stores information in capacitors that must

 

 

 

 

 

 

be refreshed periodically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DSL

 

Digital Subscriber Line technologies enhance the data capacity of the existing twisted

 

 

 

 

 

 

pair wire that runs between the local telephone company switching offices and most

 

 

 

 

 

 

homes and offices. There are actually seven types of DSL service, ranging in speeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

from 16 Kbits/sec to 52 Mbits/sec. The services are either symmetrical (traffic flows at

 

 

 

 

 

 

the same speed in both directions) or asymmetrical (the downstream capacity is higher

 

 

 

 

 

 

than the upstream capacity). DSL connections are point-to-point dedicated circuits,

 

 

 

 

 

 

meaning that they are always connected There is no dial-up. There is also no

 

 

 

 

 

 

switching, which means that the line is a direct connection into the carrier’s frame

 

 

 

 

 

 

relay, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) or Internet-connect system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DSLAM

 

A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (DSLAM) is a network device, usually

 

 

 

 

 

 

at a telephone company central office, that receives signals from multiple customer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Subscriber Line connections and puts the signals on a high-speed backbone line

 

 

 

 

 

 

using multiplexing techniques. Depending on the product, DSLAM multiplexers

 

 

 

 

 

 

connect DSL lines with some combination of asynchronous transfer mode ATM, frame

 

 

 

 

 

 

relay or IP networks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Embedded Web

 

 

This is an HTML-based configurator that usually includes an Internet Access Wizard

 

Glossary

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