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Dictionary for VisuNet
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Dictionary for VisuNet
10Base-T
Network card capability
10 MBit/s, Baseband (one signal per time),
Twisted
pair cable
100Base-TX
Network card capability
100 MBit/s, Baseband (one signal per time),
Twisted pair cable, max 100m per segment
100Base-FX Network
card
capability
100-1000 MBit/s, Baseband (one signal per
time),
Fibre Optic cable, usually multimode fibre
(max 2000m per segment). Uses ST connectors.
1000Base-SX
Network card capability
1000 MBit/s, Baseband (one signal per time),
Fibre Optic cable, usually multimode fibre
(max 2000m per segment). Uses SC connectors.
802.11.a….n
IEEE Norm
for wireless data transmission (W-LAN)
b: 11MBit/s g: max 54MBit/s
Access-Point Hardware
for
W-LAN
Usually
a Router with additional radio hardware
and antenna(s) for the 802.11… standard,
to connect W-LAN clients to this Access-Point
CAT.5 .. 7
Cable specification
8-wire Twisted Pair (TP) cable.
CAT.5: unshielded (UTP), max. 100MBit/s, max.
100m
CAT.6: shielded individual pairs, max.100MBit/s,
max. 100m
CAT.7: shielded individual pairs plus cable
shield,
max. 1000MBit/s, max 100m
Client
PC Type (Function)
PC in a Network which partly uses the data and
functionality of a Server.
Cross-Link-Cable
Cable type
for direct connection of two computers, Receive
and
Transmit pins are crossed.
CSMA/CD
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection.
Several participants detect whether the cable is
occupied, individually send their data, and, if
nevertheless a collision occurs, it is detected and
the data are resend after an arbitrary, short time
span.
ISO-OSI Layer 2 definition.
DHCP Address
Finding
Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol.
Functionality,
that enables together with a corresponding host,
the
automatic address allocation procedure in a
computer
network.
DSL Protocol Digital
Subscriber
Line. It is a technology to
enable
high speed data transmission on basic 2-wire
or 4-wire copper cables SHDSL is a high speed
symmetric version of the DSL protocol family.
Max
transmission length depends on cable cross
section.
