Technology - Terminology - Data and Internet Terminology Explained

Synopsis

ASPs basically provide applications on networks, which are made available for use on an as-you-go basis (applications on demand). It is asynchronous in that information streams can be sent independently without a common clock. A phone call requires a tiny bit of bandwidth, downloading of video requires a lot. It is measured in Kb/s (1024 bits/second), Mb/s (1.05 million bits/second approx), Gb/s (1.07 billion bits/second approx), Tb/s (1,100 billion bits/second approx).

Table of Contents

• 1. Data and Internet
  • 1.1 Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line - ADSL
  • 1.2 Application Services Provider - ASP
  • 1.3 ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  • 1.4 Bandwidth
  • 1.5 broadband-integrated services digital network - B-ISDN
  • 1.6 Bits per second
  • 1.7 Broadband (wideband)
  • 1.8 Broadband network
  • 1.9 Cable modem
  • 1.10 Circuit switched networks
  • 1.11 Client
  • 1.12 Client server
  • 1.13 Colocation, co-location or collocation
  • 1.14 coarse wave division multiplexing - CWDM
  • 1.15 Cyberspace
  • 1.16 Dark fibre
  • 1.17 Data services
  • 1.18 Domain Name
  • 1.19 Domain Name System (DNS)
  • 1.20 Digital Subscriber Line - DSL
  • 1.21 Dense Wavelength division multiplexing - DWDM
  • 1.22 E-Commerce - electronic commerce
  • 1.23 E-mail
  • 1.24 Ethernet
  • 1.25 Extranet
  • 1.26 FDM - Frequency-Division Multiplexing
  • 1.27 Fibre condominium arrangement
  • 1.28 Fibre optics/optical fibre
  • 1.29 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • 1.30 Firewall
  • 1.31 Frame relay
  • 1.32 Gateway
  • 1.33 Host computer
  • 1.34 HTML
  • 1.35 HTTP
  • 1.36 HTTPS
  • 1.37 Internet Access Provider - IAP
  • 1.38 Internet Protocol – IP
  • 1.39 Internet services
  • 1.40 Internet subscriber
  • 1.41 Internet user
  • 1.42 Intranet
  • 1.43 IP address and port number
  • 1.44 integrated services digital network - ISDN
  • 1.45 Internet service provider – ISP
  • 1.46 information technology - IT
  • 1.47 kilobits per second - Kb/s
  • 1.48 Local Area Network – LAN
  • 1.49 Last mile
  • 1.50 Metropolitan Area Network - MAN
  • 1.51 Managed Applications Service Provision - MASP
  • 1.52 MB - megabyte
  • 1.53 Modem
  • 1.54 Multimedia
  • 1.55 Network
  • 1.56 Online Service Provider - OSP
  • 1.57 Outsourcing
  • 1.58 Packet filtering
  • 1.59 Packet dwitched networks
  • 1.60 passive optical network - PON
  • 1.61 point of presence - POP
  • 1.62 Portal
  • 1.63 Postalised rates
  • 1.64 Protocol
  • 1.65 Protocol stack
  • 1.66 Proxy server
  • 1.67 Router
  • 1.68 Synchronous Digital Subscriber Line - SDSL
  • 1.69 Security, vulnerability
  • 1.70 Server
  • 1.71 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - TCP/IP
  • 1.72 Time Division Multiplexing - TDM
  • 1.73 Teleconferencing
  • 1.74 Telnet
  • 1.75 Terabyte
  • 1.76 UDP
  • 1.77 UNIX, BSD, LINUX
  • 1.78 URL
  • 1.79 Virtual Private Network – VPN
  • 1.80 Value Added Network Or Virtual Area Network – VAN
  • 1.81 Value-Added Services – VAS
  • 1.82 Virus, worm, trojan
  • 1.83 Voice over Internet Protocol – VoIP
  • 1.84 VPN
  • 1.85 VSAT networks
  • 1.86 Wide Area Network - WAN
  • 1.87 WDM - Wave Division Multiplexing
  • 1.88 WWW
  • 1.89 X.25
  • 1.90 xDSL