also refers to a tunnel that is established between the private net-
works of the two connected parties. VPN protocols are IPSec,
PPTP, L2TP and GRE.
VSS The Virtual Service Set (VSS) refers to a prefix for wireless LAN in-
terfaces.
Walled garden In the context of hotspots, a walled garden refers to the area of the
website which is available to users free of charge and without log-
ging in.
WAN A Wide Area Network (WAN) refers to a network that is spread over
a large geographic area. Global WAN networks provide access to
the Internet.
WDS The Wireless Distribution System (WDS) is used to establish a wire-
less connection between access points.
Web server A web server provides HTML documents (web pages).
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an encryption protocol for
WLANs. The key length is 40 or 104 bits.
WINS The Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) is a translation of the
NetBIOS over TCP/IP network protocol by Microsoft. Like DNS,
WINS is used for centralised name resolution. See also DNS.
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network (Wireless LAN, WLAN) refers to a loc-
al wireless network based on the 802.11 standard.
WMM Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) prioritises the data packets from different
applications, thus improving the transmission of voice, music and
video data in WLAN networks. To do this, WMM provides quality-
of-service features (QoS) for IEEE 802.11-based networks.
WPA Wi-Fi-Protected Access (WPA) is an encryption protocol for WLANs.
WPA uses dynamic keys that are based on the Temporal Key Integ-
rity Protocol (TKIP).
WPA 2 Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an encryption protocol for WLANs.
WPA 2 uses AES.
WPA Enterprise With WPA 1 / 2, WPA Enterprise enables subscribers to be authen-
ticated using the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). After
successful authentication, the server transfers a shared key to the
client and the access point for data transfer in the WLAN.
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