Networking Self-Teaching Guide: OSI, TCP/IP, LANs, MANs, WANs, Implementation, Management, and Maintenance
by James Edwards, Richard Bramante
Appendix C. Glossary
- 1BASE5
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 1 Mbps over one pair of UTP cable.
- 10BASE-T
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 10 Mbps over two pairs of Category 3 UTP cable.
- 100BASE-T
Baseband Ethernet transmission of 100 Mbps.
- 100BASE-TX
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 100 Mbps over two pairs of STP or Category 5 UTP cable.
- 1000BASE-SX
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 1000 Mbps over two multimode optical fibers using shortwave laser optics.
- access domain
A set of nodes among which MAC arbitration can occur.
- access point
A node that is configured to transmit and receive radio signals in a wireless LAN (WLAN).
- access priority
The priority used to determine access privileges on a shared LAN segment relative to other nodes that have frames queued.
- active monitor
A node in a Token Ring LAN that is responsible for handling many boundary conditions and housekeeping functions.
- adapter
The interface between a node and the network.
- address
A unique identifier of a node or network interface.
- ad hoc
A method of allowing wireless nodes to communicate directly with one another.
- aggregated link
A set of two or more physical links that appear to higher-layer entities as if they were a single higher-capacity link.
- aggregator
The entity that performs the operations required to make multiple physical links function as an aggregated link.
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
A protocol that maps the IP address to the MAC address of a node or an interface.
- aging process
A process used in a spanning ...
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