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A.2 Glossary of Terms
NUMBERS
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.
A
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.
B
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically
configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its
own IP address.
C
Communication Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message,
and medium. In networks, devices and application tasks and
processes communicate messages to each other over media.
They represent the sender and receivers. The data they send is
the message. The cabling or transmission method they use is the
medium.
Connection In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate
with each other.
D
DHCP Developed by Microsoft, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol) is a protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses to
devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can
have a different IP address every time it connects to the network.
In some systems, the device's IP address can even change while
it is still connected. It also supports a mix of static and dynamic IP
addresses. This simplifies the task for network administrators
because the software keeps track of IP addresses rather than
requiring an administrator to manage the task. A new computer