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Personal Area Network
The interconnection of networking devices within a range of 10 meters
Physical layer
The first layer of the OSI model. Provides the hardware means of transmitting electrical
signals on a data carrier
Ping
A utility program that verifies that a given Internet address exists and can receive
messages. The utility sends a control packet to the given address and waits for a
response.
PoE
Power over Ethernet is the means of transmitting electricity over the unused pairs in a
category 5 Ethernet cable
Port
A logical channel endpoint in a network. A computer might have only one physical
channel (its Ethernet channel) but can have multiple ports (logical channels) each
identified by a number.
PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol is used for two computers to communicate with each over a serial
interface, like a phone line
PPPoE
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet is used to connect multiple computers to a remote
server over Ethernet
PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol is used for creating VPN tunnels over the Internet
between two networks
Preamble
Used to synchronize communication timing between devices on a network
Q
QoS