User Guide Part 8

Security Aspects
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Appendix A Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms
Term
Description
3G
3G is a short for 3
rd
Generation.
This is a term used to represent the 3
rd
generation of mobile telecommunications
technology.
Also called Tri-Band 3G. This is a set of standards used for mobile devices and
mobile telecommunication services and networks that comply with the
International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specifications issued
and maintained by the International Telecommunication Union.
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard.
A specification for the encryption of electronic data in a symmetric-key
encryption format based on a design principle known as a substitution-
permutation network, and is fast in both software and hardware.
API
Application Programming Interface.
A specification of how some software components should interact with each
other.
In practice in most of the cases an API is a library that usually includes
specification for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables.
APN
Access Point Name.
The name of a gateway between a GPRS (or 3G, etc.) mobile network and
another computer network, frequently the public Internet.
APNS
Apple Push Notification Service.
A service created by Apple Inc.
It uses push technology through a constantly open IP connection to forward
notifications from the servers of third party applications to the Apple devices;
such notifications may include badges, sounds or custom text alerts.
ASMX
ASP.NET Web-services’ Source file for web application framework.
ASP
Active Server Pages.
Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages.
Association
A Z-Wave
®
Term.
Linking together two nodes (units) so that one of them will send information to
the other automatically when a value or level changes.
The sending node is the source node and the node receiving the information is
the target node.
ATP
Automatic Test Plan