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TERMINOLOGY
| 3G.IP | A focus group started by nine wireless companies, including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., British Telecommunications Plc. and Nokia Corp. The group set its sights squarely on third-generation (3G) mobile technology by creating a wireless system based on IP and adding the General Packet Radio System (GPRS) model, a wireless packet-switched protocol that will boost data speeds to 100Kbps. |
| 802.11b and 802.11a (also known as 802.11 High Rate) | An embellishment of the IEEE's 802.11 standard. It is intended for wireless LAN interoperability, an important feature if wireless is ever to break free of niche markets and move to more general-purpose applications. While 802.11 governs 2Mbps data transmission rates, the 802.11b standard supports 11Mbps rates. If wireless vendors adhere to 802.11b, wireless data will travel at the same speed as standard Ethernet, though far slower than 100BaseT, the 100Mbps Ethernet standard that the wired enterprise sees as standard (see above). 802.11a provides for data rates up to 54Mbps. Products for 802.11a are expected to be commercially available in 2001. |
| 100BaseT | IEEE 802.3 standard for 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APM | Advanced Power Management |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASP | Active Server Page or Application Service Provider |
| ATAPI | AT Packet Interface |
| AT&T | American Telephone and Telegraph |
| ATX | (A PC motherboard specification by Intel.) |
| AVI | Audio/Video Interleaved |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| Bluetooth | A standard that lets wireless devices communicate with each other in the 2.45GHz frequency. It's designed to govern short-range data transmission-10 meters or less-at a relatively low speed of 1Mbps. |
| BRI | Basic Rate Interface |
| CARP | Cache Array Routing Protocol |
| CCITT | Committee Consultif Internationale Telegraph et Telephonie |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access - A digital, cellular radio-based system that employs spread-spectrum technology. |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CIM | Common Information Model |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CLM | Career Limiting Move |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture. |
| CODEC | COmpressor/DECompressor |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection |
| CYA | Cover YAs… |
| D3D | Microsoft Direct 3D |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| Data Mining | The process of identifying commercially useful patterns or relationships in databases or other computer repositories through the use of advanced statistical tools. |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DDR | Double Data Rate |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML |
| DIMM | Dual In-line Memory Module |
| DIN | Deutsche Institut fuer Normung |
| DIP | Dual In-Line Package |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DMTF | Distributed Management Taskforce, Inc. |
| DNS | Domain Name Server |
| DPF | Dynamic Packet Filtering |
| dpi | Dots Per Inch |
| DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| DSLAM | Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DSSS | Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum - A wide-band mode of transmission that involves creating a redundant bit pattern, called a chip, to transmit each bit. DSSS spreads the data across a wider bandwidth. It generally offers faster transmission speeds, covers a larger area and reduces interference. |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc |
| ECP | Enhanced Capability Port |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDO | Extended Data Out |
| EIA | Electronics Industries Association |
| EIDE | Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics |
| ESDI | Enhanced Small Device Interface |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FAT32 | 32-bit File Allocation Table |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FHSS | Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum - A method of data transmission in which the radio signal "hops" between frequencies within a narrow band from 2.40GHz to 2.483GHz as it sends data packets. |
| Firewall | Router or access server designated as a buffer between private and public networks |
| FOOBAR | Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FUD | Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HDTV | High-Definition Television |
| HPFS | High Performance File System (IBM OS/2) |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transport Protocol |
| Hz | Hertz |
| IBM | International Business Machines |
| ICE | Information and Content Exchange |
| IDE | Integrated Drive Electronics |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IGMP | Internet Group Multicast Protocol |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange |
| IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISDN | Integrated Service Digital Network |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| ITU | International Telecommunications Union |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| KB | Kilobyte |
| KHz | Kilohertz |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MB | Megabyte |
| Mbps | Megabytes per second |
| MCNS | Multimedia Cable Network Systems |
| MHTML | Messaging HTML - It is the concept of using the HTML standard for messaging. |
| MHz | Megahertz |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MIPS | Millions of Instructions Per Second |
| Modem | Modulate/DEModulate |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group - a video file format offering excellent quality in a relatively small file. |
| MS | Microsoft Corporation |
| NTFS | NT File System (Microsoft) |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OLAP | OnLine Analytical Processing - A database capable of handling queries more complex than those handled by standard relational databases, through the ability to view data by different criteria, intensive calculation capability, and specialized indexing techniques. |
| ORB | Object Request Broker - It acts as the middleware between clients and servers; typically receiving requests from the clients, forwarding them to the appropriate server, and then handing the results back to the client. |
| OSR2 | OEM Service Release 2 |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PCS | Personal Communications Service - It is a set of exclusively digital cellular technologies that are capable of operating at the 1900 MHz frequency range. |
| PIN | Personal Identification Number |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RAS | Remote Access Services |
| RAMBUS | DRAM architecture and a very high-speed data transfer technology |
| RBOC | Regional Bell Operating Company |
| RDRAM | Rambus DRAM |
| RFC | Request For Comments |
| RIMM | Rambus In-line Memory Module |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RMON | Remote Monitoring |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RRAS | Routing and Remote Access Services |
| SCSI | Small Computer Systems Interface |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| SDX | Storage Data Acceleration |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SLDRAM | SyncLink DRAM |
| SMIME | Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SO DIMM | Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module |
| Spoofing | The act of a packet claiming to be from an address from which is was not actually sent |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SR | Service Release |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol |
| TCO | Total Cost of Ownership |
| TDMA | Time Division Multiple Access - A digital radio system like CDMA (see above). But with TDMA, a frequency channel is divided into separate time slots to accommodate multiple sessions. |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
| UAE | Unrecoverable Application Error |
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter |
| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery and Integration initiative |
| UPS | Uninterruptable Power Supply |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| VFAT | Virtual File Allocation Table |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| VLB | VESA Local Bus |
| VLSI | Very Large Scale Integration |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VRAM | Video Random Access Memory, (pronounced vee-ram) |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WBEM | Web-Based Enterprise Management |
| WDM | Wave Division Multiplexing |
| WECA | Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (Wi-Fi) |
| WOSA | Windows Open Standards Architecture |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| XLL | eXtensible Linking Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XSL | eXtensible Stylesheet Language |