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each other and configure the best route between any two hosts. Very
little filtering of data is done through routers. Routers do not care
about the type of data they handle. Routers often have DHCP Server
capability.
SCPI
Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation: a standard
set of commands, defined by the SCPI Consortium, to control
programmable test and measurement devices in instrumentation
systems.
secondary VISA
A VISA installation that does not install visa32.dll in the standard
VISA location. The secondary VISA installation names its VISA
DLL with a different name (agvisa32.dll) so that it can be accessed
programmatically. The primary VISA will be used by default in
VISA applications. See also primary VISA.
server
Part of the client/server model used in distributed computing. The
server is a computer system designated to act as a main servicer of
requests from other client computer systems, such as I/O application
requests, networking requests, and so forth.
session
VISA term for a communication channel. An instance of a
communications path between a software element and a resource.
Every communication channel in VISA is unique.
SICL
Standard Instrument Control Library. SICL is an Agilent-defined
API for instrument I/O. Agilent SICL is one of the IO Libraries
installed with Agilent IO Libraries Suite.