9.7 Glossary of Terms
NUMBERS
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.
802.11g
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers
transmissions speeds at up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
A
Access point
It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired LAN.
The access point attaches to the wired LAN through an Ethernet
connection.
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 tran
slating 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.
B
BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically
configure a ne twork device in a diskless workstation to give its own
IP address.
C
Communication
Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message,
and medium. In networks, devices and application tasks and
processes communicate messages to each other over media. They
represent the sender and receivers. The data they send is the
message. The cabling or transmission method they use is the
medium.
Connection
In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate
with each other.
D
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol was developed by Microsoft a
protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses to devices on a network.
With dynamic addressing, a device can have a different IP address
every time it connects to the network. In some systems, the device's
IP address can ev en change while it is still connected. DHCP also
suppor ts a mix of static and dynamic IP addresses. This simplifies
