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• star network
• WATS (wide-area telephone service)
• wideband
• Ethernet
• TDMA (time division multiple access)
• out-of-band signaling
• E-carrier system
• digital loop carrier (DLC)
• committed information rate (CIR)
• carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR or C/N)
• microwave
• in-band signaling
• baseband
• band
• broadband voice gateway
• attenuation-to-crosstalk ratio (ACR) or headroom
• attenuation
• ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line)
• mesh network
• four-way server
• ARCNET
• STUN (Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT)
• predictive dialer
• V.90
• wavelength
• spread spectrum
• Nessus
• networking
• physical layer
• layer 2
• Network layer
• Session layer (port layer)
• network
• OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)
• Local Number Portability (LNP)
• PCS (personal communications service)
• two-tiered Internet
• virtual circuit
• switched virtual circuit (SVC)
• permanent virtual circuit (PVC)
• network access control (NAC)
• maximum transmission unit (MTU)
• maximum segment size (MSS)
• master
• network analyzer (protocol analyzer or packet analyzer)
• FTAM (File Transfer Access Method)
• fault management
• asynchronous
• asymmetric communications
• DARPANET
• Application layer
• Appleshare
• APPC (Advanced Program-to-Program Communication or LU 6.2)
• anycast
• mail user agent (MUA)
• MAE
• M2M (machine-to-machine)
• Logical Link Control layer (LCL layer)
• collision
• wire speed
• TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
• node
• network interface card (NIC)
• network computer (NC)
• acoustic coupler
• ACK
• local area network (LAN)
• BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol)
• Jini
• jam
• jabber (in networks)
• Jabber
• call failure rate (CFR)
• weighted fair queueing (WFQ)
• signal-to-noise ratio (S/N or SNR)
• PacketHound
• 10-high-day busy period (10HD busy period)
• 1000BASE-T
• OpenNMS (Open Network Management System)
• Novell Directory Services (NDS)
• network operations center (NOC)
• network access server (NAS)
• NetWare
• N1
• multistation access unit (MSAU)
• Mbps (millions of bits per second or megabits per second)
• loopback test
• loopback
• Kbps (kilobits per second)
• gigabit
• trunk
• null modem
• forest-and-tree model
• VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)
• virtual network computing (VNC)
• terminal emulation
• port number
• network tracking tool (network device management program)
• audible ring
• Telnet



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