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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.
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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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