Carlos Perez 2-11-11
Iths Computer Funds
Vocabulary #1
Biometric Security Measures: The analysis of human data using the fingerprints, facial patterns, eye retinas is termed as the Biometrics.
Cable modem: A cable modem is a device that enables you to hook up your PC to a local cable TV line and receive data
Client Server network : A client is an application or system that accesses a remote service on another computer system, known as a server, by way of a network.
Client: A customer who buys something from someone.
Communication Channels: a communication channel, or channel, refers either to a physical transmission medium such as a wire.
Digital Subscribers line: is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop.
Extranet: An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled access from the outside, for specific business or educational purposes.
Firewall: A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both.
Hacker: People committed to circumvention of computer security. This primarily concerns unauthorized remote computer break-ins via a communication networks such as the Internet.
Hub: This is a hardware device that is used to network multiple computers together. It is a central connection for all the computers in a network
Internet: The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide.
Intranet: An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization.
Local Area Conector: Typically, computers running Windows are connected to a local area network. When you install Windows, your network adapter is detected, and a local area connection is created. It appears
Modem: a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
Node: A node is an abstract basic unit used to build linked data structures such as trees, linked lists, and computer-based representations of graphs. Each node contains some data and possibly links to other nodes.
Peer-to-peer: computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application.
Proxy Server: In computer networks, a proxy server is a serve that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers.
Public Switched Telephone Network: is the global collection of interconnects originally designed to support circuit-switched voice communication.
Router: Routers forward data packets across computer networks. A Router checks the data packet for its destination address and protocol format details.
Server: is a software program, or the computer on which that program runs, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on the same computer or other computers on a network.
server operating systems: sets of abstractions and runtime support for specialized, high-performance server applications.
T1 line: specific type of copper or fiber optic telephone line that can carry more data than traditional telephone lines. The T-carrier line, as it is sometimes called, was developed by AT&T Bell Labs for North America and Japan.
Wide area Network: a computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional.
WiMAX: is a telecommunications protocol that provides fixed and mobile Internet access.
Wireless Internet Service Provider: Internet service providers with networks built around wireless networking. Technology may include commonplace Wi-Fi wireless mesh networking,
Wireless Lan: links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet.
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