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LOSSARY
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The PKI uses the digital certificate to identify an individual or an
organization. The private key is given only to the requesting party and
is never shared, and the public key is made publicly available (as part of
the digital certificate) in a directory that all parties can access. You use
the private key to decrypt text that has been encrypted with your
public key by someone else. The certificates are stored (and, when
necessary, revoked) by directory services and managed by a certificate
management system. See also
certificate authority (CA)
;
registration
authority (RA)
.
plenum
A compartment or chamber to which one or more air ducts are
connected.
plenum-rated cable
A type of cable approved by an independent test laboratory for
installation in ducts, plenums, and other air-handling spaces.
PMK
Pairwise master key. A code derived from a master secret and used as
an encryption key for IEEE 802.11 encryption algorithms. A PMK is also
used to derive a pairwise transient key (PTK) for IEEE 802.11i robust
security. See also
master secret
;
PTK
.
PoE
Power over Ethernet. A technology, defined in the developing IEEE
802.3af standard, to deliver DC power over twisted-pair Ethernet data
cables rather than power cords. The electrical current, which enters the
data cable at the power-supply end and comes out at the device end, is
kept separate from the data signal so neither interferes with the other.
policy
A formal set of statements that define the way a network’s resources
are allocated among its clients — individual users, departments, host
computers, or applications. Resources are statically or dynamically
allocated by such factors as time of day, client authorization priorities,
and availability of resources.
Policy Manager
A 3Com Wireless Switch Manager (3WXM) feature that allows you to
apply a collection of configuration settings known as a
domain policy
,
or part of the policy, to one or more Wireless Switches (WXs). With
Policy Manager, you can also merge some or all of the configuration
changes you make to a single WX switch into a domain policy. See also
domain policy
.
port address
translation
See
PAT
.
Power over Ethernet
See
PoE
.
Summary of Contents for 3CRWX120695A
Page 138: ...138 CHAPTER 6 CONFIGURING AND MANAGING IP INTERFACES AND SERVICES ...
Page 272: ...272 CHAPTER 11 CONFIGURING RF LOAD BALANCING FOR MAPS ...
Page 310: ...310 CHAPTER 13 CONFIGURING USER ENCRYPTION ...
Page 322: ...322 CHAPTER 14 CONFIGURING RF AUTO TUNING ...
Page 350: ...350 CHAPTER 16 CONFIGURING QUALITY OF SERVICE ...
Page 368: ...368 CHAPTER 17 CONFIGURING AND MANAGING SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL ...
Page 412: ...412 CHAPTER 19 CONFIGURING AND MANAGING SECURITY ACLS ...
Page 518: ...518 CHAPTER 21 CONFIGURING AAA FOR NETWORK USERS ...
Page 530: ...530 CHAPTER 22 CONFIGURING COMMUNICATION WITH RADIUS ...
Page 542: ...542 CHAPTER 23 MANAGING 802 1X ON THE WX SWITCH ...
Page 598: ...598 CHAPTER 26 ROGUE DETECTION AND COUNTERMEASURES ...
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