Philips SLA5520/05 Manual De Usuario

Glossary

See Base station.

See Point to point network.

AES is a type of the security type WPA.
See security type.
See WPA.
Abbreviation

– Advanced Encryption Standard

An annotation of speed, most often ~bit per second.
Example

– The Internet subscription offers a bandwidth of 4 megabit per second.

– The audio file has a bandwidth of 128 kilobit per second.

– See General overview of bandwidths.

Device with the following functionality:
• Create the wireless network
• Share Internet subscription
• Control communication between wireless and wired (Ethernet) devices.
Example

– Philips base station, see www.philips.com for details.

Minimum amount of data stored or transmitted by electronic equipment.
Example

– See General overview of bandwidths.

The bandwidth required to transport content.

Part of the software inside the SLA5520. It helps to repair other parts of the
software

if an error occurs.

A subscription to the Internet that is on-line 24 hours a day,
7 days a week. And supports a minimum download bitrate of 256 kbit/s.
Example

– ADSL

– Cable

A group of 8 bits. Bytes are most often used to communicate file-sizes. To prevent
using very large numbers, groups of bytes are defined.
Kilobyte (kb) – 1024 byte
Example

– The picture is 450 kilobyte.

Megabyte (Mb) – 1024 kilobyte
Example

– The movie is 700 megabyte.

Gigabyte (Gb) – 1024 megabyte 
Example

– The hard disk can store 120 gigabyte.

– See General overview of bandwidths.

A piece of software used to create digital files of audio, picture and video content.
Consists of two parts, a coder (creates files) and a decoder (plays the files).

The group of Music, Pictures and Movies is called content.

A piece of software running on a base station or on a server. A method of
assigning product identification numbers to devices. The DHCP server identifies
devices in the network; it then assigns product identification numbers to the devices.
Abbreviation

- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

A piece of software running on a base station. It arranges communication between
Internet requests and the internet provider.
Example

– (E.g. translates the url www.philips.com to the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

– Domain Name Server

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