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gigabit
30 Jul 2001
WORD - In data communications, a gigabit is one billion bits, or 1,000,000,000 (that is, 109) bits. It's commonly used for measuring the amount of data that is transferred in a second between two telecommunication points. For ...
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full-duplex
WORD - Full-duplex data transmission means that data can be transmitted in both directions on a signal carrier at the same time. For example, on a local area network with a technology that has full-duplex transmission, one ...
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fax
18 Nov 2003
WORD - A fax (short for facsimile and sometimes called telecopying) is the telephonic transmission of scanned-in printed material (text or images), usually to a telephone number associated with a printer or other output device. ...
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datagram
WORD - A datagram is, to quote the Internet's Request for Comments 1594, "a self-contained, independent entity of data carrying sufficient information to be routed from the source to the destination computer without reliance on ...
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concentrator
24 Jul 2001
WORD - As generally used, a concentrator is a device that acts as an efficient forwarder of data transmission signals. A remote access hub is sometimes referred to as a concentrator. The term aggregator is also frequently used ...
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burst
WORD - Burst is a term used in a number of information technology contexts to mean a specific amount of data sent or received in one intermittent operation. It can be contrasted with streamed, paced, or continuous. Generally, a ...
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baseband
22 Jun 2001
WORD - Also see band, bandwidth, broadband, and narrowband.
Baseband has several usages:
1) Describing a telecommunication system in which information is carried in digital form on a single unmultiplexed signal channel on the ...
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AppleTalk
23 Jul 2001
WORD - AppleTalk is a set of local area network communication protocols originally created for Apple computers. An AppleTalk network can support up to 32 devices and data can be exchanged at a speed of 230.4 kilobits per second ...
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whois
05 Dec 2002
WORD - whois is a program that will tell you the owner of any second-level domain name who has registered it with Verisign (or with Network Solutions, which was acquired by Verisign). Network Solutions was originally the only ...
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node
WORD - In a network, a node is a connection point, either a redistribution point or an end point for data transmissions. In general, a node has programmed or engineered capability to recognize and process or forward transmissions ...
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