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Chapter 8 Appendix
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Glossary
Brief explanations of some of the terms and abbreviations found in this user guide
are given below.
10/100 Base-T IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 or 100 MBit/s Ethernet
ARP Address Resolution Protocol: a protocol for mapping MAC
and IP addresses
baud rate The data transfer rate
Bit/s Bits per second, the actual data rate
CIF Common Intermediate Format,
video format with 352 × 288 pixels
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol: a protocol for dynamic
allocation of IP addresses
DNS Domain Name Service
FTP File Transfer Protocol
full duplex Simultaneous data transmission in both directions (sending
and receiving)
GOP Group of pictures
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
hub Multiplexer to connect a number of Ethernet units to a 10
BASE-T segment
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ID Identification: a machine-readable character sequence
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
Internet Protocol The main protocol used on the Internet. Together with the
Transfer Control Protocol (TCP), it constitutes "TCP/IP"
IP See "Internet Protocol"
IP address A 4-byte number uniquely defining each device on the
Internet. It is usually written in dotted decimal notation with
periods separating the bytes, for example "209.130.2.193".
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
JPEG An encoding process for still images (Joint Photographic
Experts Group)
kBit/s Kilobits per second, the actual data rate
LAN See Local area network