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Appendix G: 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.
802.11g
 
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers 
transmissions speeds at up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
Access point
 
It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired 
LAN. The access point attaches to the wired LAN through an 
Ethernet connection.  
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.
BOOTP 
Bootstrap Protocol
 is an Internet protocol that can automatically 
configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its own 
IP address.
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.