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AXIS 241QA/AXIS 241SA - Glossary
Dome network camera - A remotely controllable camera
mounted in a special housing, characterized by the dome
shaped glass or plastic covering behind which the camera
resides. Usually mounted on a ceiling and looking
downwards, a dome camera can often rotate up to 360
degrees, thus providing excellent coverage of large areas.
Duplex - See Full-duplex.
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) - An optic disc with the
same physical size as a CD, but with significantly greater
storage capacity.
DVR (Digital Video Recorder) - A DVR records analog
video to a hard disk in digital format. Most DVRs use the
MPEG-2 format for encoding analog video signals.
Encoder - See Video encoder.
Ethernet - Ethernet is the most widely installed local area
network technology. An Ethernet LAN typically uses
special grades of twisted pair wires. The most commonly
installed Ethernet systems are 10BASE-T and
100BASE-T10, which provide transmission speeds up to
10 Mbps and 100 Mbps respectively.
ETRAX (Ethernet Token Ring AXIS) - The ETRAX chip is
the cornerstone of Axis technology and the 'brain' in
nearly all Axis products. A multipurpose Linux chip with
integrated Ethernet networking and extremely flexible I/O
options.
Factory default settings - These are the settings that
originally applied for a device when it was first delivered
from the factory. If it should become necessary to reset a
device to its factory default settings, this will, for many
devices, completely reset any settings that were changed
by the user.
Firewall - A firewall works as a barrier between networks,
e.g. between a Local Area Network and the Internet. The
firewall ensures that only authorized users are allowed to
access the one network from the other. A firewall can be
software running on a computer, or it can be a standalone
hardware device.
Fixed dome network camera - This type of camera
cannot be remotely controlled as regards movement, but
is mounted in the same type of dome as a controllable
network dome camera. This camera must be positioned
manually to provide the required coverage.
Fixed network camera - This type of camera cannot be
remotely controlled as regards movement. It must be
positioned manually to provide the required coverage.
Fixed iris - See Autoiris.
Focal length - Measured in millimeters, the focal length
of a camera lens determines the width of the horizontal
field of view, which in turn is measured in degrees.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - FTP is an application
protocol that uses the TCP/IP protocols, used to exchange
files between computers/devices on networks.
Frame - A frame is a complete video image. In the 2:1
interlaced scanning format of the RS-170 and CCIR
formats, a frame is made up of two separate fields of
262.5 or 312.5 lines interlaced at 60 or 50 Hz to form a
complete frame, which appears at 30 or 25 Hz. In video
cameras with a progressive scan, each frame is scanned
line-by-line and not interlaced; most are also displayed at
30 and 25 Hz.
Frame rate - The frame rate used to describe the
frequency at which a video stream is updated is measured
in frames per second (fps). A higher frame rate is
advantageous when there is movement in the video
stream, as it maintains image quality throughout.
Full-duplex - Transmission of data in two directions
simultaneously. In an audio system this would describe
e.g. a telephone systems. Half-duplex also provides
bi-directional communication, but only in one direction
at a time, as in a walkie-talkie system. See also Simplex.
G.711 - The international standard for encoding
telephone audio on a 64 kbps channel. It is a pulse code
modulation (PCM) scheme operating at 8 kHz sample rate.
G.726 - A frequently used speech-compression algorithm
in telecommunications due to its high perceived speech
quality and low resource requirements.
Gain - Gain is the amplification factor and the extent to
which an analog amplifier boosts the strength of a signal.
Amplification factors are usually expressed in terms of
power. The decibel (dB) is the most common way of
quantifying the gain of an amplifier.
Gateway - A gateway is a point in a network that acts as
an entry point to another network. In a corporate network
for example, a computer server acting as a gateway often
also acts as a proxy server and a firewall server. A
gateway is often associated with both a router, which
knows where to direct a given packet of data that arrives
at the gateway, and a switch, which furnishes the actual
path in and out of the gateway for a given packet.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
- GIF is one of the
mo
st common file formats used for images in web pages.
There are two versions of the format, 87a and 89a.
Version 89a supports animations, i.e. a short sequence of
images within a single GIF file. A GIF89a can also be
specified for interlaced presentation.
GOV (Group Of VOPs) - A group of VOPs is the basic unit
of an MPEG-4 video stream. The GOV contains different
types and numbers of VOPs (I-VOPs, P-VOPs) as
determined by the GOV length and GOV structure. See
also VOP.
GOV length - The GOV length determines the number of
images (VOPs) in the GOV structure.
See also GOV and VOP.
GOV structure - The GOV structure describes the
composition of an MPEG-4 video stream, as regards the