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homologation - The process of certifying a product or specification to verify that it meets regulatory standards. HPOV - Hewlett-Packard Open View. The umbrella network management system (NMS) family of products from Hewlett-Packard. HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer. An Internet protocol developed by Netscape to encrypt and decrypt network connections to Web servers. Built into all secure browsers, HTTPS uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol as a sublayer under the regular HTTP application layer, and uses port 443 instead of HTTP port 80 in its interactions with the lower layer, TCP/IP. See also SSL. Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer - See HTTPS. IAS - Internet Authentication Service. Microsoft's RADIUS server. IC - Industry Canada. The Canadian governing body for telecommunications. ICV - Integrity check value. The output of a message integrity check. IE - See WPA IE. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. An American professional society whose standards for the computer and electronics industry often become national or international standards. In particular, the IEEE 802 standards for LANs are widely followed. IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol. An Internet protocol, defined in RFC 2236, that enables an Internet computer to report its multicast group membership to neighboring multicast routers. Multicasting allows a computer on the Internet to send content to other computers that have identified themselves as interested in receiving it. IGMP - snooping A feature that prevents the flow of multicast stream packets within a virtual LAN (VLAN) and forwards the multicast traffic through a path to only the clients that want to receive it. A DWS-1008 switch uses IGMP snooping to monitor the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) conversation between hosts and routers. When the detects an IGMP report from a host for a given multicast group, it adds the host's port number to the list for that group. When it detects an IGMP host leaving a group, the switch removes the port number from the group list. Industry Canada - See IC. information element - See WPA IE. infrastructure network - One of two IEEE 802.11 network frameworks. In an infrastructure network, all communications are relayed through an access point (AP). Wireless devices can communicate with each other or with a wired network. The network is defined by the distance of mobile stations from the access point, but no restriction is placed on the distance between stations. Stations must request association with the access point to obtain network services, which the access point can grant or deny based on the contents of the association request. Like most corporate wireless LANs (WLANs), which must access a wired LAN for file servers and printers, a D-Link Mobility System is an infrastructure network. Compare ad hoc network. D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual 462