Руководство Пользователя для Netopia 2e-w

Cayman 2E-W User’s Guide

Glossary

November 2000

10Base2

IEEE 802.3 specification for Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable to 
run at 10 Mbps. Limited to 185 meters per segment. 10Base5 IEEE 
802.3 baseband physical layer specification for Ethernet that uses 
thick coaxial cable to run at 10 Mbps. Limited to 500 meters per 
segment.

10Base-T

IEEE 802.3 specification for Ethernet that uses unshielded twisted 
pair (UTP) wiring with RJ-45 eight-conductor plugs at each end. 
Runs at 10 Mbps.

ACK

Acknowledgment. Message sent from one network device to 
another to indicate that some event has occurred. See NAK.

access rate

Transmission speed, in bits per second, of the circuit between the 
end user and the network. 

adapter

Board installed in a computer system to provide network 
communication capability to and from that computer system. 

address mask

See subnet mask. 

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. Modems attached to twisted 
pair copper wiring that transmit 1.5-9 Mbps downstream (to the 
subscriber) and 16 -640 kbps upstream, depending on line distance. 

ANSI

American National Standards Institute. 

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (pronounced 
ASK-ee). Code in which numbers from 0 to 255 represent individual 
characters, such as letters, numbers, and punctuation marks; used 
in text representation and communication protocols.