August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
22h 27m
English
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The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology, Second Edition
by Rich Seifert, James Edwards
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Glossary
This glossary provides a compilation of the technical terms, acronyms, and abbreviations used throughout the book. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive network glossary. In particular, the definitions and expansions provided reflect the use of these terms only within this book; that is, other definitions for the same terms may be appropriate in different contexts.
Terms
- 1BASE5
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 1 Mb/s over one pair of UTP cable. See also StarLAN.
- 10BASE-F
A generic designation for a family of 10 Mb/s baseband Ethernet systems operating over optical fiber.
- 10BASE-FB
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 10Mb/s over two multimode optical fibers using a synchronous active hub.
- 10BASE-FL
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 10Mb/s over two multimode optical fibers using an optional asynchronous active hub.
- 10BASE-FP
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 10Mb/s over two multimode optical fibers using a passive hub.
- 10BASE-T
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 10Mb/s over two pairs of Category 3 (or better) UTP cable.
- 10BASE2
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 10Mb/s over thin coaxial cable. Also known as Cheapernet.
- 10BASE5
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 10Mb/s over thick coaxial cable.
- 10BROAD36
A broadband Ethernet system operating at 10Mb/s over three channels (in each direction) of a private CATV system.
- 100BASE-FX
A baseband Ethernet system operating at 100 Mb/s over two multimode optical fibers. ...