6. Glossary
G
lo
ssary
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AP
(
A
ccess
P
oint) - A device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network.
SIP
(
S
ession
I
nitiation
P
rotocol) - A application-layer control protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with
one or more participants. These sessions include internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution and multimedia conferences.
DNS
(
D
omain
N
ame
S
erver) - The IP address of your ISP’s server, which translates the names of websites into IP addresses.
Encryption
- Encoding data transmitted in a network.
Firmware
- The programming code that runs a networking device.
Gateway
- A device that interconnects networks with different, incompatible communications protocols.
IP
(
I
nternet
P
rotocol) A protocol used to send data over a network.
IP Address
- The address used to identify a computer or device on a network.
ISP
(Internet
S
ervice
P
rovider) - A company that provides access to the internet.
MAC
(
M
edia
A
ccess
C
ontrol) - The unique address that a manufacturer assigns to each networking device.
Outbound Proxy Server
- A proxy that receives requests from a client, even though it may not be the server resolved by the
request - URI.
ROAMING
- The ability to take a wireless device from the range of one access to another without losing the connection.
SSID
(
S
ervice
S
et
ID
entifier) - Your wireless network’s name.
STUN Server -
Simple Traversal of UDP (
U
ser
D
atagram
P
rotocol) through NATs (
N
etwork
A
ddress
T
ranslators) is a network
protocol allowing a client behind a NAT to find out its public address, the type of NAT it is behind and the internet side port
associated by the NAT with a particular local port. This information is used to set up a communication between two hosts that
are both behind NAT routers.
Subnet Mask
- An address code that determines the size of the network.
WEP
(
W
ired
E
quivalent
P
rivacy) - A method of encrypting network data transmitted on a wireless network for greater security.
WLAN
(
W
ireless
L
ocal
A
rea
N
etwork) - A group of computers and associated devices that communicate with each other
wirelessly.
