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A.2 Glossary of Terms
10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III, IV, or V
unshielded twisted-pair media.
The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new
technology improved from PCM, which encodes analog
sounds to digital form.
AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is an data compression scheme
optimized for speech coding, which is adopted as the standard
speech codec by 3GPP.
Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an
HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only
make an Internet connection to the computer form that the
applet was sent.
American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the
standard method for encoding characters as 8-bit sequences of
binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters.
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at
the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same
network by translating an IP address to a physical address.
Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform and video file type,
a common format for small movies and videos.
Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can
automatically configure a network device in a diskless
workstation to give its own IP address.
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