User Guide

Glossary
6-20
Appendix
6
TCP/IP
Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The protocol used to
connect to the Internet and to wide-area networks.
Token Ring
A local area network system developed by IBM, in which conflict during message
transmission is avoided by granting "tokens" that allow computers to send messages. The
system can transmit data at 4 or 16 Mbps.
UAA
Universally Administered Address.
See also LAA.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator. A standard way of specifying the location of an object, usually
a web page, on the Internet. The URL for a web page would look something like this:
"http://www.w3.org/default.html". Here, "http:" indicates that a web page is being
accessed, "http://www.w3.org" is the address of the server containing the web page, and
"default.html" is the file name under which the web page is stored on the server.
Vector Graphics
See Raster.
WAN
Wide Area Network.
WINS
Windows Internet Name Service. A service for associating a NetBIOS name, which is a
computer name or printer name on a NetBIOS network, with an IP address. To use WINS,
a WINS server is required.