Specifications

OmniAccess Reference: AOS-W System Reference
924 Part 031652-00 May 2005
SSL*
Commonly used encryption scheme used by many online retail and banking
sites to protect the financial integrity of transactions. When an SSL session
begins, the server sends its public key to the browser. The browser then sends
a randomly generated secret key back to the server in order to have a secret
key exchange for that session
Subnetwork or Subnet*
Found in larger networks, these smaller networks are used to simplify
addressing between numerous computers. Subnets connect to the central
network through a router, hub or gateway. Each individual wireless LAN will
probably use the same subnet for all the local computers it talks to.
Supplicant
An entity at one end of a point-to-point LAN segment that is being
authenticated by an authenticator attached to the other end of that link.
Example: Win-XP/2K Wireless station is a supplicant.
Switch*
A type of hub that efficiently controls the way multiple devices use the same
network so that each can operate at optimal performance. A switch acts as a
networks traffic cop: rather than transmitting all the packets it receives to all
ports as a hub does, a switch transmits packets to only the receiving port.
TCP*
A protocol used along with the Internet Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of
individual units (called packets) between computers over the Internet. While IP
takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of
keeping track of the packets that a message is divided into for efficient routing
through the Internet. For example, when a web page is downloaded from a
web server, the TCP program layer in that server divides the file into packets,
numbers the packets, and then forwards them individually to the IP program
layer. Although each packet has the same destination IP address, it may get
routed differently through the network. At the other end, TCP reassembles the
individual packets and waits until they have all arrived to forward them as a
single file.
TCP/IP*
The underlying technology behind the Internet and communications between
computers in a network. The first part, TCP, is the transport part, which
matches the size of the messages on either end and guarantees that the
correct message has been received. The IP part is the user's computer address