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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
1. Network Camera: A stand-alone device which allows users to view live, full motion video from anywhere
on a computer network, even over the Internet, using a standard web browser.
2. JPEG: A standard image format, used widely for photographs, also known as JPG.
3. IEEE 802.11b/g: The specifications developed by the IEEE for wireless network technology. It provides
11 Mbps transmission in the 2.4GHz band usage.
4. WEP: Wireless Equivalent Privacy. A security protocol for wireless network defined in the IEEE 802.11b/g
standard. WEP aims to provide security by encrypting data over radio waves so that it is protected as it is
transmitted from one end point to another.
5. Adhoc Mode: A wireless network system in which devices communicate directly with each other, without
the use of a wireless router.
6. Infrastructure Mode: One of the wireless network system in which devices communicate with each other
by first going through the wireless router.
7. IP Address: The unique 32 bit number assigned to each computer connected to the Internet. IP numbers
are used by the TCP/IP protocol to route packets of data to their destinations.
8. TCP/IP: The collection of "protocols" underlying the functioning of the Internet. Each computer connected
to the Internet is identified by a unique IP Address.
9. SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
10. FTP: File Transfer Protocol. Network cameras equipped with an embedded operating system, such as
Linux, can use FTP to send images to a website.
11. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a set of rules used by communications devices such as
a computer, router or network adapter to allow the device to request and obtain an IP address from a server
which has a list of addresses available for assignment.
12 UPnP: Universal Plug and Play is an architecture for pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of
intelligent appliances and wireless devices.
13. DDNS: DDNS is a method of keeping a domain name linked to a dynamic IP address with your Network
Camera. You can set up your DDNS service and the device will automatically update your DDNS server
each time it alter a different IP address.
14. Time server: A time server consists of a computer networking device that reads the actual time from a
reference clock and distributes this information to its clients using a computer network.
15. WPA:
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) is a class of systems to secure wireless (Wi-Fi)
computer networks. WPA implements the majority of the IEEE 802.11i standard, and was intended as an
intermediate measure to take the place of WEP while 802.11i was prepared.