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A.4 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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BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can
automatically configure a network device in a diskless
workstation to give its own IP address.
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