September 2005

  • conductance

    Conductance is an expression of the ease with which electric current flows through a substance.21 Sep 2005

  • triplecast

    A triplecast (TM) is the simultaneous broadcast of a program on television, radio, and an Internet site or channel.21 Sep 2005

  • EPOC

    EPOC is an operating system designed for small, portable computer-telephones with wireless access to phone and other information services.21 Sep 2005

  • brouter

    A brouter (pronounced BRAU-tuhr or sometimes BEE-rau-tuhr) is a network bridge and a router combined in a single product.21 Sep 2005

  • big-endian and little-endian

    Big-endian and little-endian are terms that describe the order in which a sequence of bytes are stored in computer memory.21 Sep 2005

  • Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)

    The Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) is an industry standard client/server interface that allows networked computers that are not yet loaded with an operating system to be configured and booted ...21 Sep 2005

  • repeater

    In digital communication systems, a repeater is a device that receives a digital signal on an electromagnetic or optical transmission medium and regenerates the signal along the next leg of the med...21 Sep 2005

  • nslookup

    nslookup is the name of a program that lets an Internet server administrator or any computer user enter a host name (for example, "whatis.21 Sep 2005

  • multihomed

    Multihomed describes a computer host that has multiple IP addresses to connected networks.21 Sep 2005

  • AUI (attachment unit interface)

    The AUI (attachment unit interface) is the 15-pin physical connector interface between a computer's network interface card (NIC) and an Ethernet cable.21 Sep 2005

  • plesiochronous

    Plesiochronous (pronounced plee-see-AH-krun-us, from Greek plesos, meaning close, and chronos, meaning time) is an adjective that describes operations that are almost, but not quite, in synchroniza...21 Sep 2005

  • Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

    Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is a protocol (set of communication rules) that allows corporations to extend their own corporate network through private "tunnels" over the public Internet.21 Sep 2005

  • erbium amplifier

    An erbium amplifier, also called optical amplifier or an erbium-doped fiber amplifier or EDFA, is an optical or IR repeater that amplifies a modulated laser beam directly, without opto-electronic a...21 Sep 2005

  • domain name system (DNS)

    The domain name system (DNS) is the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses.21 Sep 2005

  • active network

    An active network is a network in which the nodes are programmed to perform custom operations on the messages that pass through the node.21 Sep 2005

  • ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)

    An agency of the United States Department of Defense, ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) underwrote development for the precursor of the Internet, known as ARPANET. Initially a modest network...21 Sep 2005

  • B-channel (bearer channel)

    In the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), the B-channel is the channel that carries the main data.21 Sep 2005

  • X terminal

    An X terminal is typically a diskless computer especially designed to provide a low-cost user interface for applications that run in a network X server as part of a distributed X Window System.21 Sep 2005

  • modem doubling

    Modem doubling is an inexpensive way for a user who wants a fast Internet connection, but can only connect with an analog telephone line, to use two 56kbps modems to double their bandwidth.21 Sep 2005

  • SMDS (Switched Multimegabit Data Service)

    SMDS (Switched Multimegabit Data Service) is a public, packet-switched service aimed at enterprises that need to exchange large amounts of data with other enterprises over the wide-area network on ...21 Sep 2005