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Control Protocol (TCP) layers, SSL is a standard feature in Internet Explorer, Netscape,
and most web server products.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Protocol used to transfer email messages between email servers.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
An efficient protocol for network management and device monitoring.
SNMP trap
A process that filers SNMP messages and saves or drops them, depending upon how the
system is configured.
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
A protocol that prevents bridging loops from forming due to incorrectly configured
networks.
Station (STA)
An 802.11 capable device that supports only one 802.11 network interface, capable of
establishing a Basic Service Set 802.11 network (i.e., peer-to-peer network).
static IP address
A permanent IP address assigned to a node in a TCP/IP network.
subnet
A portion of a network, designated by a particular set of IP addresses. Provides a
hierarchy for addressing in LANs. Also called a subnetwork.
subnet mask
A TCP/IP addressing method for dividing IP-based networks into subgroups or subnets
(compare with maskbits). Each triplet of digits in an IP address consists of 8 bits. To
specify using a subnet mask, indicate the masked bits as an IP address. To specify the
subnet in maskbits, count the number of bits in the prefix. Example: subnet mask
255.255.255.0 is equivalent to 24 maskbits, which is the total number of bits in the
255.255.255 prefix.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
Part of the IEEE 802.11i encryption standard, TKIP provides improvements to WEP
encryption, including per-packet key mixing, message integrity check, and a re-keying
mechanism.
Traffic Class Identifier (TCID)
Part of the standard 802.11 frame header. The 3-bit TCID is used for mapping to class-of-
service values.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
One of the most commonly used communication protocols in modern networking.
Addresses used in TCP/IP usually consist of four triplets of digits, plus a subnet mask
(for example, 192.168.25.3, subnet 255.255.255.0).
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
A protocol that provides privacy protection for applications that communicate with each
other and their users on the Internet. TLS is a successor to the Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL).
True MIMO™
The QUALCOMM Networks, Inc. implementation of the data multiplexing technique
known as Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO). MIMO uses multiple spatially-
separated antennas to increase wireless throughput, range, and spectral efficiency by
simultaneously transmitting multiple data streams on the same frequency channel.
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