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10BASE-T 10BASE-T is (10Mbps) Ethernet over UTP Category III,IV, or V unshielded twisted-pair media.
100BASE-TX The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is called 100BASE-TX (100Mbps
Fast Ethernet).
802.11g An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers transmissions speeds of up to 54
Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
A
Access point A device that acts as 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 from which the applet was
sent.
ASCII American Standard Code For Information Interchange. It is the standard method for encoding
characters as 8-bit sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters.
ARP Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer, which
delivers data on the same network by translating an IP address to a physical address.
AVI Audio Video Interleave. This is a Windows platform audio and video file type, a common format
for small movies and videos.
B
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol. An Internet protocol that can automatically configure a network device in a
diskless workstation to give its own IP address.
C
Communication Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message, and medium. In networks,
devices and application tasks & processes communicate messages to each other over media.
They represent the senders 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.