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- cable modem
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A device that provides Internet access over cable television lines.
- cable tester
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A device that is used to check for electrical continuity along a length of cable. Cable tester is a generic term that can be applied to devices such as volt/ohm meters and TDRs.
- caching-only server
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A type of DNS server that operates the same way as secondary servers except that a zone transfer does not take place when the caching-only server is started.
- carrier
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A signal that carries data. The carrier signal is modulated to create peaks and troughs, which represent binary bits.
- CDDI (Copper Distributed Data Interface)
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An implementation of the FDDI standard that uses copper cable rather than optical cable.
- Centronics connector
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A connector that uses teeth ...
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