March 2011
Beginner
920 pages
27h 46m
English
Content preview from Computer Networks, 5th Edition
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Glossary
| 3DES | Triple DES, a version of DES that uses three keys, effectively increasing the key size and robustness of the encryption. |
| 3G | Third-generation mobile wireless, a class of cellular wireless technologies based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). |
| 4B/5B | A type of bit encoding scheme used in Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), in which every 4 bits of data are transmitted as a 5-bit sequence. |
| 4G | Fourth-generation wireless, an emerging set of standards to support higher data rates than 3G. |
| 802.3 | IEEE Ethernet standard. |
| 802.5 | IEEE token ring standard. |
| 802.11 | IEEE wireless network standard. |
| 802.17 | IEEE resilient packet ring standard. |
| 822 | Refers to RFC 822, which defines the format of Internet email messages. ... |