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Glossary
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Internet service provider
An Internet service provider offers access to the
for a fee.
Internet telephony
Transmission of voice via the
(Voice over
).
IP
protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in a
network using
and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It decides
the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient in a com-
plex network (routing).
IP address
The IP address is the unique network-wide address of a network component in a net-
work based on the
protocol (e.g. in a local area network (
) or on the
).
The IP address has four parts (each with up to three-position digit sequences) separated
by full stops (e.g. 192.168.1.1). The IP address comprises the network number and the
computer number. Depending on the
, one, two or three parts form the
network number; the remainder form the computer number. You can find out the IP
address of your PC using the
ipconfig
command.
IP addresses can be assigned manually (see
) or automatically (see
).
On the Internet
are normally used instead of the IP addresses. The
is used to assign domain names to IP addresses.
The Gigaset SX763 WLAN dsl has a
and a
IPoA
IP over ATM
IP pool range
The Gigaset SX763 WLAN dsl's IP address pool defines a range of
that the
router's
.
ISP
(Internet Service Provider)
