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A.2 Glossary of Terms
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10BASE-T 10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III, IV, or V unshielded
twisted-pair media.
100BASE-TX The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is
called 100BASE-TX.
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ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new technology
improved from PCM, which encodes analog sounds to digital form.
AMR AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is an audio data compression scheme
optimized for speech coding, which is adopted as the standard
speech codec by 3GPP.
Applet Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an
HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only
make an Internet connection to the computer form that the
applet was sent.
ASCII American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the
standard method for encoding characters as 8-bit sequences of
binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters.
ARP Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the
TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same network by
translating an IP address to a physical address.
AVI Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and video
file type, a common format for small movies and videos.