User's Manual

001-2019-500 Rev 0 Paragon4 – UHF, 700 & 800MHz User Manual
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2. Definitions
Access Point Communication hub for users to connect to a wired LAN. APs are important for providing heigh-
tened wireless security.
ADB Agile Dual-Band - GeminiG3 radiomodem model that allows 700/800MHz automatic band
switching capability during roaming.
AES Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - uses 128-bit encryption to secure data.
Airlink Physical radio frequency connections used for communications between units.
ARP Address Resolution Protocol – Maps Internet address to physical address.
AAVL Autonomous Automatic Vehicle Location. Optional feature that involves using GPS (Global Po-
sitioning System) signals from the mobile unit by the Host PC.
Backbone The part of a network that connects most of the systems and networks together, and handles the
most data.
Bandwidth The transmission capacity of a given device or network.
Base Designates products used as base stations in VIS systems. They currently include the Paragon
family of products up to the Paragon4 radiomodems.
Browser An application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the
World Wide Web.
BSC Base Station Controller - An async controller-modem designed for the radio base station in mo-
bile systems. A component of Paragon4 radiomodem base stations.
COM Port RS-232 serial communications ports of the Paragon4 wireless radiomodem.
Cycle Mark Signal transmitted on an E-DBA network that keeps the network synchronized.
Default Gateway A device that forwards Internet traffic from your local area network.
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - A networking protocol that allows administrators to as-
sign temporary IP addresses to network computers by "leasing" an IP address to a user for a li-
mited amount of time, instead of assigning permanent IP addresses.
DNS Domain Name Server - The on-line distributed database system used to map human-readable ma-
chine names into IP addresses.
Domain A specific name for a network of computers.
Dynamic IP Addr A temporary IP address assigned by a DHCP server.
E-DBA Enhanced Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation – Dataradio proprietary protocol that schedules all in-
bound and outbound Airlink traffic to minimize contention.
Ethernet Ethernet is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). It de-
fines wiring and signaling for the physical layer, and frame formats and protocols for the media
access control (MAC)/data link layer of the OSI model. Ethernet is mostly standardized as IEEEs
802.3.
Feature Key Method used to implement customer’s option(s) selected at the time of radiomodem purchase
(factory-installation) or as add-on (field-installation).
Firewall A set of related programs located at a network gateway server that protects the resources of a
network from users from other networks.
Firmware The programming code that runs a networking device.
Fragmentation Breaking a packet into smaller units when transmitting over a network medium that cannot sup-
port the original size of the packet.
FTP File Transfer Protocol - A protocol used to transfer files over a TCP/IP network.
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