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A.2 Glossary of Terms

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A.2 Glossary of Terms NUMBERS 10BASE-T 100BASE-TX 10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III, IV, or V unshielded twisted-pair media. The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is called 100BASE-TX. A ADPCM AMR Applet ASCII ARP AVI Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new technology improved from PCM, which encodes analog sounds to digital form. AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is an audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding, which is adopted as the standard speech codec by 3GPP. Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only make an Internet connection to the computer form that the applet was sent. American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the standard method for encoding characters as 8-bit sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters. Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same network by translating an IP address to a physical address. Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and video file type, a common format for small movies and videos. B BOOTP C Communication Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its own IP address. Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message, and medium. In networks, devices and application - 98 -

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A.2 Glossary of Terms
NUMBERS
10BASE-T
10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III, IV, or V
unshielded twisted-pair media.
100BASE-TX
The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is
called 100BASE-TX.
A
ADPCM
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new
technology improved from PCM, which encodes analog
sounds to digital form.
AMR
AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is an audio data compression
scheme optimized for speech coding, which is adopted as the
standard speech codec by 3GPP.
Applet
Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an
HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only
make an Internet connection to the computer form that the
applet was sent.
ASCII
American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the
standard method for encoding characters as 8-bit sequences
of binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters.
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at
the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same
network by translating an IP address to a physical address.
AVI
Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and
video file type, a common format for small movies and videos.
B
BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol
is
an Internet protocol that can
automatically configure a network device in a diskless
workstation to give its own IP address.
C
Communication
Communication has four components: sender, receiver,
message, and medium. In networks, devices and application