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Local area network (LAN) - a group of 
computers and associated devices that share a 
common communications line and typically 
share the resources of a single processor or 
server.
Network Operations Center - A place from 
which a network is supervised, monitored, and 
maintained. Also referred to as the Network 
Management Center (NMC).
Network Address Translation (NAT)- a method 
of connecting multiple computers to the Internet 
(or any other IP network) using one IP address.
Performance enhancing proxy (PEP) - modules 
that provide TCP acceleration. PEP is used to 
improve the performance of the Internet 
protocols on network paths where native 
performance suffers due to characteristics of a 
link or subnetwork on the path.
Private IP addressing - A computer on the 
Internet is identified by its IP address. In order 
to avoid address conflicts, IP addresses are 
publicly registered with the Network 
Information Centre (NIC). Computers on private 
TCP/IP LANs however do not need public 
addresses, since they do not need to be accessed 
by the public. For this reason, the NIC has 
reserved certain addresses that will never be 
registered publicly. These are known as private 
IP addresses.
Router - a device or, in some cases, software in a 
computer, that determines the next network 
point to which a packet should be forwarded 
toward its destination.
Signal quality factor (SQF) - an integer value 
from 0-99 that indicates the strength of the 
received satellite signal relative to noise.
Subnet mask - a 32-bit value that is used to 
distinguish the network ID from the host ID in 
an arbitrary IP address. Each host on a network 
requires a subnet mask.
TCP/IP internet protocol suite - the basic 
communication language or protocol of the 
Internet.
TCP Acceleration - see PEP.
Transmission control protocol (TCP) - a set of 
rules (protocol) used along with the Internet 
Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of 
message units between computers over the 
Internet. While IP takes care of handling the 
actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of 
keeping track of the individual units of data 
(called packets) that a message is divided into 
for efficient routing through the Internet.
Turbo Page - software that prefetches objects 
from Web sites you visit to speed up surfing.