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Appendix D - Glossary
Term Description
802.11 A family of specifications for wireless
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
The most commonly deployed "flavor" of DSL for
home users is asymmetrical DSL. The term
asymmetrical refers to its unequal data rates for
downloading and uploading (the download rate is
higher than the upload rate). The asymmetrical
rates benefit home users because they typically
download much more data from the Internet than
they upload.
Analog An analog signal is a signal that has had its
frequency modified in some way, such as by
amplifying its strength or varying its frequency, in
order to add information to the signal. The voice
component in DSL is an analog signal. See
digital .
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
A standard for high-speed transmission of data,
text, voice, and video, widely used within the
Internet. ATM data rates range from 45 Mbps to
2.5 Gbps. See
data rate .
Authenticate To verify a user’s identity, such as by prompting for
a password.
Bit Short for "binary digit," a bit is a number that can
have two values, 0 or 1. See binary.
Bps bits per second
Bridging Passing data from your network to your ISP and
vice versa using the hardware addresses of the
devices at each location. Bridging contrasts with
routing which can add more intelligence to data
transfers by using network addresses instead. The
device can perform both routing and bridging.
Typically, when both functions are enabled, the
device routes IP data and bridges all other types of
data. See routing.
Broadband A telecommunications technology that can send
different types of data over the same medium. DSL
is a broadband technology.
Broadcast To send data to all computers on a network.