User's Manual

Glossary
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VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol. Provides an advanced digital
communications network that bypasses the traditional public
switched telephone system and uses the Internet to transmit voice
communication. VoIP enables people to use the Internet as the
transmission medium for telephone calls by sending voice data in
packets using IP rather than by traditional circuit switched
transmissions of the PSTN.
WCS Wireless Communications Services. The variety of services available
using frequencies in the 2.3 GHz band for general fixed wireless use.
WEEE Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment. The purpose of Directive
2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is,
as a first priority, the prevention of waste electrical and electronic
equipment (WEEE), and in addition, the reuse, recycling and other
forms of recovery of such wastes so as to reduce the disposal of waste.
It also seeks to improve the environmental performance of all operators
involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment, e.g.
producers, distributors and consumers and in particular those
operators directly involved in the treatment of waste electrical and
electronic equipment.
WL (or W/L) Wireless LAN
WIMAX The name commonly given to the IEEE 802.16 standard.
Specifications for fixed broadband wireless metropolitan access
networks (MANs) that use a point-to-multipoint architecture. WIMAX
supports very high bit rates in both uploading to and downloading
from a base station up to a distance of 30 miles.