User Manual

Glossary
BreezeMAX PRO 5000 CPE 97 Product Manual
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol. Provides an advanced digital communications network
that bypasses the traditional public switched telephone system and uses the Internet to
transmit voice communication. VoIP enables people to use the Internet as the
transmission medium for telephone calls by sending voice data in packets using IP
rather than by traditional circuit switched transmissions of the PSTN.
WAN
Wide Area Network. A computer network that spans a relatively large geographical
area. Wide area networks can be made up of interconnected smaller networks spread
throughout a building, a state, or the entire globe.
WCS
Wireless Communications Services. The variety of services available using frequencies
in the 2.3 GHz band for general fixed wireless use.
WEEE
Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment. The purpose of Directive 2002/96/EC on
waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is, as a first priority, the prevention of
waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), and in addition, the reuse, recycling
and other forms of recovery of such wastes so as to reduce the disposal of waste. It
also seeks to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the
life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment, e.g. producers, distributors and
consumers and in particular those operators directly involved in the treatment of waste
electrical and electronic equipment.
WL (or W/L)
Wireless LAN
WIMAX
The name commonly given to the IEEE 802.16 standard. Specifications for fixed
broadband wireless metropolitan access networks (MANs) that use a
point-to-multipoint architecture. WIMAX supports very high bit rates in both uploading to
and downloading from a base station up to a distance of 30 miles.