Network Glossary

1

1000BASE-T
100BASE-T
10BASE-T

3

3G

4

4G

8

802.11a
802.11b
802.11g
802.11n

A

Access Point

B

Bandwidth

C

CAN (Campus Area Network)
CWDM (Course Wave Division Multiplexing)
Category 5
Category 5e
Category 6

D

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
DNS (Domain Name System)
DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing)
Delay (Latency)
Delay Variation (Jitter)
Drill Down

E

Ethernet

F

Fiber Optics
Firewall

G

GAN (Global Area Network)
Gbps (Gigabits per second)
Gigabit Ethernet

H

H.323

I

IP (Internet Protocol)
IP Addressing
IPsec
IPv4 Addressing
IPv6 Addressing
Internet2

K

Kbps (Kilobits per second)

L

L2TP (Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol)
LAN (Local Area Network)
LAN Switching
LWAPP

M

MAC (Media Access Control)
MAC Addressing
MAN (Metro Area Network)
MDIX (Media Dependent Interface)
MIMO
Mbps (Megabits per second)
Multicast
Multimode Fiber

N

NIC (Network Interface Card)
NOC (Network Operations Center)
Network Bridge
Network Hub

P

PAN (Personal Area Network)
POE (Power Over Ethernet)
PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)
Packet Loss
Ping

Q

QOS (Quality of Service)

R

Repeater
Roaming
Router
Routing

S

SSID (Service Set Identifier)
Single-mode Fiber
Switch

T

Ten Gigabit Ethernet
Throughput
Traceroute
Twisted Pair

V

VPN (Virtual Private Network)
VoIP (Voice over IP)

W

WAN (Wide Area Network)
WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network)
WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network)
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
WiMAX
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
Wireless Bridge