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PMP 450 Planning Guide Glossary
Term Definition
SYN/1 Second-from-right LED in the module. In the Access Point Module or in a
registered Subscriber, this LED is continuously lit to indicate the presence of sync.
In the operating mode for a Subscriber Module, this LED flashes on and to indicate
that the module is not registered.
Sync GPS (Global Positioning System) absolute time, which is passed from one module to
another. Sync enables timing that prevents modules from transmitting or receiving
interference. Sync also provides correlative time stamps for troubleshooting efforts.
TCP Alternatively known as Transmission Control Protocol or Transport Control
Protocol. The Transport Layer in the TCP/IP protocol stack. This protocol is
applied to assure that data packets arrive at the target network element and to
control the flow of data through the Internet. Defined in RFC 793. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html
.
TDD Time Division Duplexing. Synchronized data transmission with some time slots
allocated to devices transmitting on the uplink and some to the device transmitting
on the downlink.
telnet Utility that allows a client computer to update a server. A firewall can prevent the
use of the telnet utility to breach the security of the server. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc818.html, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc854.html
and
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc855.html.
Textual
Conventions MIB
Management Information Base file that defines system-specific textual conventions.
See also Management Information Base.
Tokens Theoretical amounts of data. See also Buckets.
TOS 8-bit field in that prioritizes data in a IP transmission. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1349.html
.
TxUnderrun Field This field displays how many transmission-underrun errors occurred on the
Ethernet controller.
UDP User Datagram Protocol. A set of Network, Transport, and Session Layer protocols
that RFC 768 defines. These protocols include checksum and address information
but does not retransmit data or process any errors. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc768.html
.
udp User-defined type of port.
U-NII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure radio frequency band, in the 5.1-
GHz through 5.8-GHz ranges.
VID VLAN identifier. See also VLAN.
VLAN
Virtual local area network. An association of devices through software that contains
broadcast traffic, as routers would, but in the switch-level protocol.
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