Faber M1400 Manuel D’Utilisation

Glossary of Terms  •  121 

Saturation Output Amplitude. SAT is the average maximum output level for a specified light input.  

Host system memory allocated for frame buffers is virtually contiguous but physically scattered throughout 
all available memory.  

Signal to Noise Ratio. SNR measures the ratio between random noise and an arbitrary reference signal on 
the transmission path or within a device.  

The subnet is identified by performing the logical AND of the IP address with its subnet mask. 
 

Connection-oriented transport protocol providing robustness and reliability. Used by many Internet 
application, such as HTML. 

A mechanism that initiates an action when an event occurs such as synchronizing an image acquisition to 
an external event. A trigger generally causes a program routine to be executed such as the resetting of 
camera exposure and/or the firing of a strobe light.  

User Datagram Protocol is a connectionless transport protocol providing no guaranty of delivery or 
reliability. GigE Vision Control Protocol and GigE Vision Stream Protocol are based on UDP. 

A Virtual Local Area Network is a flexible arrangement where computers connected via a VLAN Ethernet 
switch are not necessarily on the same LAN broadcast domain. Refer to the VLAN Ethernet switch 
documentation for implementation and configuration details.   

A virtual private network is a private data network that makes use of the public telecommunication 
infrastructure, maintaining privacy through the use of a tunneling protocol and security procedures. The 
idea of the VPN is to give the company the same capabilities at much lower cost by using the shared public 
infrastructure rather than a private one. (source: