10. IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Infrastructure. An
is called an Infrastructure configuration. Infrastructure is applicable to enterprise scale for wireless
ss
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and their counterparts outside of the U.S. have set aside bandwidth for unlicensed use in
cal) band. Spectrum in the vicinity of 2.4 GHz, in
ade available (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band. Spectrum in the vicinity of
rea Network (LAN)
ns, data, and peripherals. All connections are made via cable or
wireless media, but a LAN does not use telephone services. It typically spans a single building or
rk
o
rks may be local or wide area networks.
ol
15. SSID
Access Points that share the same SSID are able
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of assigning IP addresses to clients on the network. In networks with Static IP address, the
dministrator manually assigns an IP address to each computer. Once a Static IP address is
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l Key Integrity Protocol, pronounced tee-kip, is part of the IEEE 802.11i encryption
ess LANs. TKIP is the next generation of WEP, the Wired Equivalency Protocol,
, thus fixing the flaws of WEP.
sion Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
term “TCP/IP” is of
ten used generically to
integrate
d wireless and wired LAN
access to central database, or wirele
. ISM Band
The FCC
the so-called ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medi
particular, is being m
2.4 GHz, in particular, is being made available of users around the globe.
12. Local A
A LAN is a group of computers, each equipped with the appropriate network adapter card connected
by cable/air, that share applicatio
campus.
13. Netwo
A network is a system of computers that is connected. Data, files, and messages can be transmitted
over this network. Netw
14. Protoc
A protocol is a standardized set of rules that specify how a conversation is to take place, including the
format, timing, sequencing and/ or error checking.
A Network ID unique to a network. Only clients and
to communicate with ea
ch other. This string is case-sensitive.
6. Static IP Addressing
A method
network a
assigned, a computer uses the same IP address every time it reboots and logs on to the network,
unless it is manually changed.
7. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
The Tempora
standard for wirel
which is used to secure 802.11 wireless LANs. TKIP provides per-packet key mixing, a message
integrity check and a re-keying mechanism
18. Transmis
TCP/IP is the protocol suite developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It is
widely used in corporate Internet works, because of its superior design for WANs. TCP governs how
packet is sequenced for transmission the network. The
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