User's Manual Part 2

User’s Guide Glossary
TCP/IP: TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic
communication language or protocol of the
Internet. It can also be used as a
communications protocol in a private network
(either an intranet or an extranet). When you
are set up with direct access to the Internet,
your computer is provided with a copy of the
TCP/IP program just as every other computer
that you may send messages to or get
information from also has a copy of TCP/IP.
TCP/IP is a two-layer program. The higher
layer, Transmission Control Protocol,
manages the assembling of a message or file
into smaller packets that are transmitted over
the Internet and received by a TCP layer that
reassembles the packets into the original
message. The lower layer, Internet Protocol,
handles the address part of each packet so
that it gets to the right destination.
U
UAM: Universal Access Method is the current
recommended methodology for providing
secure web-based service presentment,
authentication, authorization and accounting of
users is a WISP network. This methodology
enables any standard Wi-Fi enabled TCP/IP
device with a browser to gain access to the
WISP network.
W
WAN: A wide area network (WAN) is a
geographically dispersed telecommunications
network. The term distinguishes a broader
telecommunication structure from a local area
network (LAN). A wide area network may be
privately owned or rented, but the term usually
connotes the inclusion of public (shared user)
networks. An intermediate form of network in
terms of geography is a metropolitan area
network (MAN).
Telnet: Telnet is the way to access someone
else's computer, assuming they have given
permission. (Such a computer is frequently
called a host computer.) More technically,
Telnet is a user command and an underlying
TCP/IP protocol for accessing remote
computers. On the Web, HTTP and FTP
protocols allow to request specific files from
remote computers, but not to actually be
logged on as a user of that computer.
X
XSL (Extensible Style sheet Language),
formerly called Extensible Style Language, is a
language for creating a style sheet that
describes how data sent over the Web using
the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is to
be presented to the user.
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