Server that provides documents in HTML format for access over the
Internet (WWW).
T-Online service with which e-mails can be sent and received world-
wide on the Internet by means of a browser.
Wired Equivalent Privacy
(also known as RJ-45 plug) Plug used for ISDN terminals with eight
contacts. Developed by the US telephone company Western Bell.
Western plugs for analogue telephones have four or six contacts.
A graphical tool on Windows 95, 98 and Millennium that uses Win32
API to view and configure the IP address configuration of com-
puters.
A group of computers wirelessly connected to each other (wireless
LAN).
Wireless multimedia
Wi-Fi-protected access
Concentrates primarily on the needs of companies and offers secure
encryption and authentication. Uses 802.1x and the Extensible Au-
thentication Protocol (EAP) and thus offers an effective means of
user authentication.
Intended for private users or small businesses that do not run a
central authentication server. PSK stands for Pre-Shared Key and
means that AP and client use a fixed character string (8 to 63 char-
acters) known to all subscribers as the basis for key calculation for
wireless traffic.
World Wide Web
The X.21 recommendation defines the physical interface between
two network components in packet-switched data networks (e.g. Da-
tex-P).
The X.21bis recommendation defines the DTE/DCE interface to V-
series synchronous modems.
An internationally agreed standard protocol that defines the interface
between network components and a packet-switched data network.
ITU-T recommendation on the integration of X.25-compatible DTEs
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