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G-2
Glossary
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Chris Seiter
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Glossary
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Category 5 Balanced Cable
Balanced 100 ohms aand 120 ohms cables and associated connected
hardware whose transmission characteristics are specified up to 100
MHz as per ISO/IEC 11801 and clause 23 of the IEEE 802.3 standard.
Class I Repeater
A type of 100Base-T repeater with internal delay such that only one
repeater set may exist between any two DTEs within a single collision
domain.
Class II Repeater
A type of 100Base-T repeater with internal delay such that only two or
fewer such repeater sets may exist between any two DTEs within a
single collision domain.
Collision
A collision occurs when two or more nodes try to transmit
simultaneously. Large numbers of collisions may indicate a high
network load.
Collision Domain
A single CSMA/CD network. If two or more Media Access Controllers
(MAC) are within the same collision domain and both transmit at the
same time, a collision will occur. MACs that are separated by a
repeater are in the same collision domain. MACs that are separated by
a bridge are within different collision domains.
DTE
Data Terminal Equipment. A DTE can be a source or destination
communications device (typically a computer) that sends or receives
network transmissions.
