User Manual

6. Glossary

Glossary

AP (Access Point) - A device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network.

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) - A application-layer control protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with

one or more participants. These sessions include internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution and multimedia conferences.

DNS (Domain Name Server) - The IP address of your ISP’s server, which translates the names of websites into IP addresses.

Encryption - Encoding data transmitted in a network.

Firmware - The programming code that runs a networking device.

Gateway - A device that interconnects networks with different, incompatible communications protocols.

IP (Internet Protocol) A protocol used to send data over a network.

IP Address - The address used to identify a computer or device on a network.

ISP (Internet Service Provider) - A company that provides access to the internet.

MAC (Media Access Control) - The unique address that a manufacturer assigns to each networking device.

Outbound Proxy Server - A proxy that receives requests from a client, even though it may not be the server resolved by the

request - URI.

ROAMING - The ability to take a wireless device from the range of one access to another without losing the connection.

SSID (Service Set IDentifier) - Your wireless network’s name.

STUN Server - Simple Traversal of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) through NATs (Network Address Translators) is a network

protocol allowing a client behind a NAT to find out its public address, the type of NAT it is behind and the internet side port

associated by the NAT with a particular local port. This information is used to set up a communication between two hosts that

are both behind NAT routers.

Subnet Mask - An address code that determines the size of the network.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) - A method of encrypting network data transmitted on a wireless network for greater security.

WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) - A group of computers and associated devices that communicate with each other

wirelessly.