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A.2 Glossary of Terms
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10BASE-T 10BASE-T is 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.
A
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new
technology improved from PCM, which encodes analog
sounds to digital form.
AMR AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is an audio data compression
scheme optimized for speech coding, which is adopted
as the standard speech codec by 3GPP.
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 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 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.