EMM-E6 Ethernet User's Guide

Broadcast to Connectivity
EMM-E6 User’s Guide GL-3
Broadcast A type of network transmission; a broadcast transmission
is one which is sent to every station on the network,
regardless of location, identification, or address.
Buses Physical portions of the backplane of a modular chassis
which pass information between modules.
Card See Module.
Channel A portion of a backplane bus which is specifically
partitioned off for the transmission of one type of network
data.
Chassis See Modular Chassis.
Client A workstation or node which obtains services from a
server device located on the network.
Client-Server A computing model which is based on the use of dedicated
devices (servers) for the performance of specific
computational or networking tasks. These servers are
accessed by several clients, workstations which cannot
perform those functions to the same extent or with the
same efficiency as the servers.
Coaxial An Ethernet media type which consists of a core of
electrically conductive material surrounded by several
layers of insulation and shielding.
Community
Name
An identification which allows a specific level of access to
the network device. Similar to a password, a Community
Name acts to restrict access to control capabilities and
network statistics.
Concentrator A network device which allows multiple network ports in
one location to share one physical interface to the network.
Congestion An estimation or measure of the utilization of a network,
typically expressed as a percentage of theoretical
maximum utilization of the network.
Connectivity The physical connection of cabling or other media to
network devices. The coupling of media to the network.
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