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Glossary
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IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder.
The IRD is the official name for the satellite receiver, which has a built-in
decoder for unscrambling subscription channels. It is also known as
Set-Top Box for the cable.
ISO International Standards Organization.
ITU-R International Telecommunications Union - Radio.
Formerly CCIR. Deals with the standardization of wireless communication.
ITU-T International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications.
Formerly CCITT. Produces global telecommunication standards, and
defines tariff and accounting principles.
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group.
Name of the committee that created the JPEG standard (and also other
standards). The JPEG standard specifies the codec, which defines how a
still image is compressed into a stream of bytes and decompressed back
into an image.
LAN Local Area Network.
A local area network is a network that connects computers and devices in
a limited geographical area such as home, school, computer laboratory or
office building.
LED Light Emitting Diode.
LFE Low Frequency Effects
MIB Management Information Base.
SNMP collects management information from devices on the network and
records the information in a management information base. The MIB
information includes device features, data throughput statistics, traffic
overloads, and errors.
MPTS Multiple Programs Transport Stream
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit: The size of the largest packet that a network
protocol can transmit.
Multicast Process where a single stream is served from one source to multiple
receivers. The multicast address range is: 224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255.
NMS Network Management System.
NTP Network Time Protocol.
Packet - In networks, a unit of data transmitted over a packet-switching network.
A packet consists of a header followed by a number of contiguous bytes
from an elementary data stream.
- In transport streams, a packet is a small, fixed-size data quantum.
PSU Power Supply Unit.
R, G, B Red, Green, Blue.
Resolution Determined by the number of pixels displayed per line or for a given area.
RTP Real Time Transport Protocol.
T
his Protocol defin
es a s
tandardized packet format for delivering audio
and video over IP networks.